[Fedora-legal-list] How to specify license? CCDL or GPLv2 or ASL 2.0?

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Fri Mar 9 06:19:30 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 03:41:38PM +0100, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> On 24/02/12 15:37, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:07:28PM +0100, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I came accross the attached header in the source files for a package I
> >> am working on. What is the correct license tag for that? I guess that it
> >> should be "CDDL or GPLv2 or ASL 2.0". Is that correct?
> > 
> > That sounds like a potentially interesting issue actually. Can you
> > inform of us of the specific package and the location of the source code?
> 
> Yes, the package is "jboss-el-2.2-api". I already create the bug to
> request review:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797165
> 
> And the source code is available here:
> 
> https://github.com/jboss/jboss-el-api_spec

This is now resolved. It is a bit puzzling but "CDDL" is the best
license tag here.

- RF





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