4:24 a.m.
* Richard Fontana:
Is anyone aware of any Fedora package where there is a (disjunctive)
dual license, where one side of the dual license is a not-allowed
('bad') license, *not* involving the familiar GPL/Artistic dual
license of the Perl community? By this I don't mean what's in the
license tag but the actual license granted upstream.
Do parts of ghostscript qualify? For example, contrib/gdevdj9.c:
| /*
| Copyright (C) 2000 <Rene Harsch, Switzerland>
| written by <Rene Harsch rene(a)harsch.net>
| modification by Mark Burton <markb(a)ordern.com>
|
| Portions Copyright (C) 1999 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved.
|
| This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
| it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
| the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
| (at your option) any later version.
|
| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
| but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
| MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
| GNU General Public License for more details.
|
| You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
| along with this program; if not, write to:
|
| Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
| 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
| Boston, MA 02110-1301
| USA
|
| This program may also be distributed as part of Aladdin Ghostscript,
| under the terms of the Aladdin Free Public License (the "License").
|
| Every copy of Aladdin Ghostscript must include a copy of the
| License, normally in a plain ASCII text file named PUBLIC. The
| License grants you the right to copy, modify and redistribute
| Aladdin Ghostscript, but only under certain conditions described in
| the License. Among other things, the License requires that the
| copyright notice and this notice be preserved on all copies.
| */
dcmtk also has a complicated licensing situation. The COPYRIGHT file
says this in part:
| The files ofstd/include/dcmtk/ofstd/ofxml.h and ofstd/libsrc/ofxml.cc are
| derived from the XMLparser library, which is covered by the following
| copyright:
|
| /*
| * Copyright (c) 2002, Frank Vanden Berghen
| * All rights reserved.
| *
| * The following license terms apply to projects that are in some way related to
| * the "DCMTK project", including applications
| * using "DCMTK project" and tools developed
| * for enhancing "DCMTK project". All other projects
| * (not related to "DCMTK project") have to use this
| * code under the Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL)
| * See the file "AFPL-license.txt" for more informations about the AFPL
license.
| * (see http://www.artifex.com/downloads/doc/Public.htm for detailed AFPL terms)
| *
| * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
| * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
| * * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
| * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
| * * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
| * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
| * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
| * * Neither the name of Frank Vanden Berghen nor the
| * names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
| * derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
| *
| * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Frank Vanden Berghen ``AS IS'' AND ANY
| * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
| * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
| * DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL <copyright holder> BE LIABLE FOR ANY
| * DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
| * (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
| * LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
| * ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
| * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
| * SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
| */
But that isn't really dual-licensed under a bad license, it is licensed
under a bad license?! (I think this is a bit of a problem with this
sort of question, it leads us to realize that things are packaged in
Fedora which shouldn't.)
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Bad_Licenses> has this
piece of information:
| Please note that while the "gSOAP Public License" is non-free, the
| "gSOAP Toolkit" is dual licensed as GPLv2 or gSOAP Public License.
I quite don't see what makes gSOAP's license.pdf non-free, although it
seems to rule out private source/binary distribution.
Thanks,
Florian