[Fedora-legal-list] Packaging oVirt generated source

[Tom Callaway]

On 04/23/2012 12:18 PM, Yaniv Dary wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Juan Hernandez" <juan.hernandez at redhat.com>
>> To: "Yaniv Dary" <ydary at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Tom Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com>, legal at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 7:01:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Packaging oVirt generated source
>>
>> On 04/23/2012 05:20 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>>> On 04/23/2012 10:50 AM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
>>>> We would like to package for fedora the Data Ware House component
>>>> of
>>>> oVirt, which contains parts generated using Talend Open Studio
>>>> (see [1]).
>>>>
>>>> This tool allows the user to define graphically some data flows
>>>> and
>>>> transformations and then generates Java code. The generated Java
>>>> code
>>>> states in the header that the license is LGPL and the tool itself
>>>> claims
>>>> to be open source using GPL v2 (see [2]).
>>>>
>>>> Is it acceptable from the legal point of view to create a Fedora
>>>> package
>>>> using the generated Java code as the source?

After review with Red Hat Legal, code generated using Talend Open Studio
that is explicitly licensed as LGPL is acceptable for inclusion in Fedora.

Apologies for the extreme delay in responding to this issue.

~tom

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