[Fedora-legal-list] license question: glulxe

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Tue Jun 7 21:21:42 UTC 2011


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 04:12 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 13:43 -0600, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>>> Most of the software in the package is GPL. However, one dependency
>>> (glulxe) has some terms that I am not sure about. Is the glulxe
>>> license acceptable in Fedora? I've pasted it below.
>>>
>>> The source code in this package is copyright 1999-2010 by Andrew Plotkin.
>>> You may copy and distribute it freely, by any means and under any conditions,
>>> as long as the code and documentation is not changed. You may also
>>> incorporate this code into your own program and distribute that, or modify
>>> this code and use and distribute the modified version, as long as you retain
>>> a notice in your program or documentation which mentions my name and the
>>> URL shown above.
>>
>> Looks like MIT to me.  (I do not speak for Fedora Legal.)
>
> It's MIT-ish, but definitely distinct and different. Still working out
> the details, stay tuned.
>

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> It's MIT-ish, but definitely distinct and different. Still working out
> the details, stay tuned.

Any updates?

Please let me know if I need to block FE-LEGAL on
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/682544 to keep this in the queue.

- Ken



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