[Fedora-legal-list] Documentation and header files seemingly without a license

[lakshminaras2002 at gmail.com]

Hello Peter,
I am reviewing erlang-skerl<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652648>and
the issue I am facing is similar to what Ville-Pekka reports. In this
case, some of the c source/header files and erlang source files are without
license headers.

Could you ask upstream to include license headers in the source code files
of both packages / or confirm the licensing of those files?

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/13/2011 04:17 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> > 1. All other relevant source files have a license header except
> > include/bitcask.hrl and c_src/erl_nif_compat.h. I'm not sure if they
> > constitute a "work" in terms of copyright and should have licenses. What
> > do you think?
>
> I think those files should have license headers. At a minimum, we should
> confirm the licensing with upstream.
>
> > 2. This is, to me, the more important question. There is a .pdf file and
> > some .png files in the doc directory. To me these seem like works which
> > are under copyright, but I can't find a license for them anywhere in the
> > source tree. Does this make them non-free and non-redistributable?
>
> If we don't know the license, we have to assume we have no license.
> However, we should make every effort to ask upstream about the license
> terms of those files.
>
> In cases where a general license statement is given somewhere, like in
> README, we can assume it applies to these sorts of files as well, but in
> this case where there is no license attribution, we either need to get
> it from upstream (aka the copyright holder) or assume we have no license.
>
> ~tom
>
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Lakshmi Narasimhan T V
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