Re: mininet license

[Iñaki Ucar]

Hi,

Kind reminder that the package was accepted [1], and we are blocking on legal.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2072115

Thanks,
-- 
Iñaki Úcar

mininet license

[Richard Fontana]

On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  Kind reminder that the package was accepted [1], and we are blocking on legal.
>
>  [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2072115 
Hi,

Unfortunately we have decided this license does not meet Fedora's
minimum standards for a free software/open source license.

The license may continue to be tolerated for software that is
currently packaged in Fedora, but would not be allowed for future
packages.

My recommendation would be to try to get the upstream developers to
switch to an OSI-approved permissive license like the MIT license.

Richard

mininet license

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 17:08, Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Kind reminder that the package was accepted [1], and we are blocking on legal.
>  >
>  > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2072115
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Unfortunately we have decided this license does not meet Fedora's
>  minimum standards for a free software/open source license.
>
>  The license may continue to be tolerated for software that is
>  currently packaged in Fedora, but would not be allowed for future
>  packages. 
So it's ok for OpenvSwitch I guess because it's a key technology
nowadays, but not for this. [shrugs]

Thanks anyway for your consideration.
Iñaki

>  My recommendation would be to try to get the upstream developers to
>  switch to an OSI-approved permissive license like the MIT license.
>
>  Richard
>  

-- 
Iñaki Úcar

mininet license

[Richard Fontana]

You have probably already seen this but it looks like upstream has
switched to 3-clause BSD (SPDX: BSD-3-Clause):
https://github.com/mininet/mininet/blob/master/LICENSE

Richard

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:59 PM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 17:08, Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > Kind reminder that the package was accepted [1], and we are blocking on legal.
>  > >
>  > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2072115
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Unfortunately we have decided this license does not meet Fedora's
>  > minimum standards for a free software/open source license.
>  >
>  > The license may continue to be tolerated for software that is
>  > currently packaged in Fedora, but would not be allowed for future
>  > packages.
>
>  So it's ok for OpenvSwitch I guess because it's a key technology
>  nowadays, but not for this. [shrugs]
>
>  Thanks anyway for your consideration.
>  Iñaki
>
>  > My recommendation would be to try to get the upstream developers to
>  > switch to an OSI-approved permissive license like the MIT license.
>  >
>  > Richard
>  >
>
>
>  --
>  Iñaki Úcar
>  

--

mininet license

[Iñaki Ucar]

Yes, thanks, the maintainer told me, and the package is already part of
Fedora.

Iñaki

El mié., 13 jul. 2022 23:11, Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com&gt; escribió:

>  You have probably already seen this but it looks like upstream has
>  switched to 3-clause BSD (SPDX: BSD-3-Clause):
>  https://github.com/mininet/mininet/blob/master/LICENSE
>
>  Richard
>
>  On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:59 PM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  wrote:
>  >
>  > On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 17:08, Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > Hi,
>  > > >
>  > > > Kind reminder that the package was accepted [1], and we are blocking
>  on legal.
>  > > >
>  > > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2072115
>  > >
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > Unfortunately we have decided this license does not meet Fedora's
>  > > minimum standards for a free software/open source license.
>  > >
>  > > The license may continue to be tolerated for software that is
>  > > currently packaged in Fedora, but would not be allowed for future
>  > > packages.
>  >
>  > So it's ok for OpenvSwitch I guess because it's a key technology
>  > nowadays, but not for this. [shrugs]
>  >
>  > Thanks anyway for your consideration.
>  > Iñaki
>  >
>  > > My recommendation would be to try to get the upstream developers to
>  > > switch to an OSI-approved permissive license like the MIT license.
>  > >
>  > > Richard
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Iñaki Úcar
>  >
>
>
>  --
>
>