[Fedora-legal-list] Kojo licensing

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

This would seem like a really nice addition to our repository, alas,
it'd appear that upstream's current license is invalid (GPLv3, but
code is based on Netbeans which is CDDL/GPLv2)

http://www.kogics.net/sf:kojo

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Michel

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:54 PM
Subject: Licensing query
To: feedback at kogics.net


Hi,

I'm looking at Kojo with interest -- having been a teaching assistant
for several years, and a fan of both the original LOGO language and
functional programming, it seems like a really useful pedagogical
tool.

I do have some concern about the license Kojo is made available under,
however. As far as I can tell, Netbeans is dual-licensed under CDDL
and GPLv2 *without* the "or any later version" provision.

Kojo cannot be using Netbeans under the CDDL license, as it is
GPL-incompatible (ref: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html).
Yet it also cannot be using Netbeans under GPLv2, and itself be
licensed under GPLv3, because both are incompatible with each other!
>From the same link:

>  Please note that GPLv2 is, by itself, not compatible with GPLv3. However, most software released under GPLv2 allows you to use the terms of later
>  versions of the GPL as well.

Would be great if this licensing issue can be clarified. Switching to
CDDL, or to GPLv2+ (i.e. with the " or any later version" provision),
or dual-licensing under both, would seem to offer the best outcome. We
at Fedora also have a legal team that would be more than happy to help
resolve licensing issues, as we'd like to package as much interesting
FLOSS software as possible; see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main for more information.

Thanks,

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Michel Alexandre Salim
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