[Fedora-legal-list] FDLIBM license

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le lundi 30 décembre 2013 à 12:51 -0500, Tom Callaway a écrit :
> On 12/25/2013 03:52 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'd like to package the openlibm library [1] which is a dependency of
> > the Julia language [2]. The original license of the project, besides
> > later contributions which are under BSD and MIT licenses, is an
> > apparently custom license whose text is as follows (see [3]):
> > 
> >    Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> > 
> >    Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business.
> >    Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
> >    software is freely granted, provided that this notice
> >    is preserved.
> > 
> > The text looks like slightly contradictory since it starts stating "All
> > rights reserved" before granting the rights to do mostly anything you
> > want with the code given the license is preserved. I guess it is OK to
> > ship it, but I would like a confirmation for more clued people.
> > 
> > As a secondary point, how should I indicate the license in the License
> > field of the .spec file? FDLIBM and BSD and MIT?
> 
> "All Rights Reserved" is a Legalese no-op (it used to mean something
> once, but post-Berne convention, it doesn't mean anything). You can
> ignore it entirely.
> 
> Let's just call that SunPro license MIT and move on. It isn't unique
> enough to merit a new license name.
Cool, thanks for the help!