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Sleepycat license with SaaS restriction
by Florian Weimer 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

cryptlib is licensed under the Sleepycat license with a SaaS restriction: “Note that decoupling the software from the user, for example by running in a SaaS configuration, does not exempt you from these requirements.” (Full text attached.) This was not part of the original Sleepycat license, so a new license tag is required. Maybe this license is not even free; this additional clause seems to be a restriction on use. But perhaps it is not so different from the AGPL. Thanks, Florian

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Licensing BIP derived files
by Cristian Le 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Hi, This issue came up when trying to package rust-tiny-bip39 [1]. Basically there are some projects that are spun off of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP), in this case BIP39 [2] which establishes a wordlist which can be use as mnemonic to encode/decode a long series of bits. Te issue is that typically these BIPs are licensed [3], but (maybe) because BIP39 has not passed the proposed stage, it did not receive a proper license. So the question is, how to deal with the wordlist defined in BIP39? Contacting the upstream developer is difficult as they don't have an open issue page, and the main means of external people to get in touch with them is through their google mailing list, which would require exposing my personal gmail account to who knows what (given the association with bitcoin), which I am not comfortable of doing. In Fedora there is another BIP39 based project, python-mnemonic [4], which is the reference code for BIP39, where the only license specified is MIT. I have looked at the review request ticket [5], but the licensing of BIP39 was not discussed there. Any advice on this situation? [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297307 [2]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki [3]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0002.mediawiki#bip-licensing [4]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-mnemonic [5]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395867

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