[Fedora-legal-list] License issue with mpich2

[Deji Akingunola]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 22:56 -0400, Deji Akingunola wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >
>  > I've been trying to get mpich2 into Fedora for quite a long time now
>  > [1]. At this time all the technical issues blocking its inclusion
>  > seems to have been solved; however Jason Tibbitts did raise an issue
>  > with the licensing. mpich2 package doesn't contain any licensing text,
>  > but it ships with a copyright notice which include a 'GOVERNMENT
>  > LICENSE' and a 'DISCLAIMER' sections, and also simply stating
>  > 'Permission is hereby granted to use, reproduce, prepare derivative
>  > works, and
>  > to redistribute to others.'
>  > I've had the review ticket blocking FE-legal, but nothing is happening
>  > on that front yet. I hope FE-legal can look into this and make a
>  > decision, the upstream is really interested in having the package
>  > distributed as part of Fedora.
>  > Thank you.
>
>  Typical IANAL-speak, but the US Government is usually required to have a
>  license for itself, any other licensing notwithstanding, as a condition
>  of acceptance of paid work.  AFAIK, that license is additive, not
>  restrictive.  The license appears to be MIT-ish to me, but Spot can
>  probably vet this more easily than I.
>
Thanks to Paul for his comment, and to Spot for acting on it; this
issue have been resolved in bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171993).


Deji
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