[Fedora-legal-list] [WTF] openerp: what's this license (#1)?

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Wed Apr 10 17:07:44 UTC 2013


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:08:06PM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:
> On 2013-04-10 16:03, Tom Callaway wrote:
> >On 04/09/2013 11:08 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> >>On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:41:02AM +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:
> >>>HI all!
> >>>
> >>>openerp 7.0 have some files with license below. Is it possible to
> >>>conclude an effective license for this? (AGPL 3.0+ and LGPL 2.1+)? Or is
> >>>it just an invalid attempt to relicense?
> >>On its face this is no good.
> >I concur that this is a very weird mix.
> >
> >~tom
> >
> >==
> >Fedora Project
> Yes... Any ideas how to cope with it out there? I have filed an
> upstream bug, but they are not that responsive.
> 
> Basically, I think i t would be helpful with a conclusion that it's
> either possible to use in Fedora or not.

Seems just on a superficial glance like something upstream might be
able to correct with a license change. But if they're not responsive,
not sure what more you can do.

 - RF



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