[Fedora-legal-list] Inconsistent licensing

Miroslav Suchý msuchy at redhat.com
Wed May 29 12:37:25 UTC 2013


On 05/03/2013 06:06 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm packaging StarCluster for Fedora
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949371) and I'm running
> into some questions about the licensing.
>
> README.rst and setup.py and PKG-INFO indicates LGPLv3
>
> The only python files with a header indicate:
> starcluster/progressbar.py: LGPL (v2.1 or later)

Is this bundled code of:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/progressbar/2.2
?
> starcluster/sshutils/scp.py: LGPL (v2.1 or later)
Is this bundled code of:
https://github.com/jbardin/scp.py
?

This has to be packaged separately:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries

> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: * Dual licensed under the MIT
> or GPL Version 2 licenses.
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: * http://jquery.org/license
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: * Released under the MIT, BSD,
> and GPL Licenses.
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.js: *  Released under the MIT,
> BSD, and GPL Licenses.
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.js: * Released under the MIT
> license by IOLA, December 2007.
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.js: * Released under the MIT
> license by Ole Laursen, October 2009.
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.navigate.js:Licensed under
> the MIT License ~ http://threedubmedia.googlecode.com/files/MIT-LICENSE.txt
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.navigate.js: * Dual licensed
> under the MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
> ./starcluster/templates/web/js/jquery.flot.navigate.js: * and GPL
> (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php) licenses.
>
> So, does:
>
> LGPLv3 and (MIT or GPLv2)

Dtto, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857992

-- 
Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Systems Management Engineering


More information about the legal mailing list