[Fedora-legal-list] WOL - wide open license - compatibility with Fedora

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Sat Jul 19 02:19:46 UTC 2008


Couldn't see any discussion of WOL previously, so here goes: A
particular source file (smbPitchShift.[Ch]) within the rakarrack [1] 
sources is licensed under WOL:
=====
The Wide Open License (WOL)
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its
* documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
* the above copyright notice and this license appear in all source copies.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
* ANY KIND. See http://www.dspguru.com/wol.htm
=====
Is this compatible with Fedora ?
What would be the License field if the whole package was licensed this way ?

In this case, the source archive has:
- [GPLv3] COPYING (overall copying file).
- [GPLv2] header (no or later version) in most source/header files.
- [GPL+] 3x files {GPL, no version mentioned, see COPYING}.
- WOL 1x file/header
What would be the required license, or will a need to query upstream for 
their licensing intentions {each module tends to have differing authors} ?

DaveT.

[1]: http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/




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