[Fedora-legal-list] Legal opinion on license for EQP

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

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On 01/03/2012 01:35 PM, John C. Peterson wrote:
> 
> The other problem is that the author passed away back in May 2011, 
> so contacting him is not an option. I don't know for certain, but
> I would suspect that whoever funded the author's research is
> possibly the ultimate owner of the copyright, so further
> clarification is not an automatic dead end.
> 
> Maybe rpmfusion is a better home for this?

Just because I'm curious, I looked at the project's home, and the
README file, which points to here as a mirror:

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/AR/eqp/

That page notes it is a deprecated page, but it does have an
enlightening bit of information at the bottom:

"These activities are projects of the Mathematics and Computer Science
Division of Argonne National Laboratory."

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/index.php

So I agree it's not likely a deadend, and further, it's likely that
you can get an actual license on the work if ANL is the agency that
funded the research.

Another problem that you don't bring up is, with the upstream project
permanently in limbo, where do you take bugs for fixing, etc.? Are you
thinking of starting a new project page somewhere for that?

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