Status report

[Tom Callaway]

Todd,

Can you run another status report on the Licensing?

Also, please run another report showing just those packages (and owners)
who are License: Artistic (not GPL* or Artistic), just Artistic.

Thanks,

~spot

[Todd Zullinger]

Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>  Can you run another status report on the Licensing? 
Attached are reports by owner and package.  The package report now
also lists the owner.

The executive summary for the impatient:

Invalid licenses: 2044 out of 4746 (43.07%) [as of 2007-09-21 17:39 UTC]

Progress has slowed a bit in the past few weeks.  It's soon time for
another nag mail to kick in another round of fixes and/or time to send
mail directly to owners and co-maintainers. :)

>  Also, please run another report showing just those packages (and
>  owners) who are License: Artistic (not GPL* or Artistic), just
>  Artistic. 
I think there are still some package listed here that needn't be.  Is
"GPLv2+ or Artistic" valid?  I believe you said it was and would add
it to the wiki, but it is not there and thus still not in the rpmlint
config (which I'm using as the source for valid licenses, updated to
match wiki rev 91).

The packages affected are:

perl
perl-Jcode
perl-Unicode-Map
perl-Unicode-Map8
perl-Unicode-MapUTF8
perl-Unicode-String
procmail

GPLv2+ or Artistic is valid for perl and procmail AFAIK, but it is
likely a copy/paste error for the others I believe.

The list of packages with License tags matching "^Artistic$" is
attached.  This regex misses a number of perl packages with a license
of "Artistic or GPL."  Those packages likely just need to change the
license to "GPL+ or Artistic", assuming they are licensed the same as
Perl.

There are a couple of others missed by this which are caught if the
trailing $ is removed from the regex:

pv (jhrozek): "Artistic (modified)"

The homepage for pv (http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml) has this
news entry:

1.0.1 - 4 August 2007  [1.0.1 notes]
        * licensing change from Artistic to Artistic 2.0

yap (gemi): "Artistic/LGPL"

The yap tarball's README says the license is Artistic 2, and that
matches what is included in the Artistic file.  Some parts are also
available as LGPL.  I didn't look closely to see if any version is
specified.

I haven't looked at many of the Artistic licensed packages closely,
but I do recall checking the cpan2rpm package.  The license is simply
wrong (and has been for years, unfortunately).  It is GPLv2+.  See:

http://search.cpan.org/src/ECALDER/cpan2rpm-2.028/LICENSE
http://search.cpan.org/dist/cpan2rpm/cpan2rpm#LICENCE_AND_COPYRIGHT

(I think someone got confused because the default license tag created
in spec files generated by cpan2rpm is Artistic.)

Lastly, I'll attach the python script I've been working on to produce
the reports.  It's not the best code for sure, but hopefully it's not
too awful.  Improvements are welcome.

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[Tom Callaway]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:27 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>  I think there are still some package listed here that needn't be.
>  Is
>  "GPLv2+ or Artistic" valid?  I believe you said it was and would add
>  it to the wiki, but it is not there and thus still not in the rpmlint
>  config (which I'm using as the source for valid licenses, updated to
>  match wiki rev 91). 
Darn. OK. I've definitely committed that change to the wiki now.

>  The packages affected are:
>  
>  perl
>  perl-Jcode
>  perl-Unicode-Map
>  perl-Unicode-Map8
>  perl-Unicode-MapUTF8
>  perl-Unicode-String
>  procmail
>  
>  GPLv2+ or Artistic is valid for perl and procmail AFAIK, but it is
>  likely a copy/paste error for the others I believe. 
I checked, and it was an error for the others, and they have been
corrected now.

>  The list of packages with License tags matching
> "^Artistic$" is
>  attached. 
OK, I went through that list:

cpan2rpm (ghenry): "Artistic" (incorrect license)
cracklib (nalin): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
d4x (thias): "Artistic" (emailed maintainer, as he had a note in the
changelog on an impending license change)
perl-Apache-Session (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream, upstream
agrees to GPL+ or Artistic)
perl-Authen-Radius (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Class-Data-Accessor (cweyl): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Class-Gomor (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Class-Singleton (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Crypt-CBC (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-DBIx-POS (cweyl): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-DBIx-SQLite-Simple (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Font-TTF (nim): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-GD (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream, upstream says relicensing
as GPL+ Artistic 2.0)
perl-IO-Multiplex (lmb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Image-Size (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-LockFile-Simple (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream, upstream says
GPL+ or Artistic ok)
perl-Net-Netmask (wtogami): "Artistic" (incorrect license tag, should be
Copyright only, corrected)
perl-Net-Packet (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Net-SNPP (jcollie): "Artistic" (wrong license tag, should be GPL+
or Artistic, emailed maintainer)
perl-Net-Write (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-NetAddr-IP (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Parse-RecDescent (rnorwood): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Razor-Agent (robert): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Regexp-Common (corsepiu): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-SNMP_Session (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-SVG-Graph (alexlan): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Text-Autoformat (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Text-Reform (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Tie-EncryptedHash (pghmcfc): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Unix-Syslog (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-XML-Grove (rnorwood): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-pmtools (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
pgadmin3 (ghenry): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
pv (jhrozek): "Artistic (modified) (incorrect license tag, should be
Artistic 2.0, emailed maintainer)
qstat (andriy): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
rman (jamatos): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
tetex-IEEEtran (rvinyard): "Artistic" (is LPPL now)
z88dk (pfj): "Artistic" (actually Artistic Clarified, corrected)

~spot

[Todd Zullinger]

Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>  Darn. OK. I've definitely committed that change to the wiki now.
We're watching you. ;)

>  OK, I went through that list: 
If you want help with that sort of thing next time, just ask.  I'm
sure you enjoy it immensely, but I'd be happy to share a little of the
fun.

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