[Fedora-legal-list] License of jnlp-servlet.jar - part of Oracle JDK

Mikolaj Izdebski mizdebsk at redhat.com
Mon Nov 11 21:48:57 UTC 2013


On 11/11/2013 10:43 PM, Adam Saunders wrote:
> Hi Manuel,
> 
> This is the 3-Clause BSD license, listed in the Fedora licensing list as
> "BSD License (no advertising)". Any software licensed under this license
> is a candidate for inclusion in Fedora.

Unfortunately the quoted license is non-free because it limits usage
rights ("this software is not [...] licensed [...] for use in [...]").
It would be free if the word "licensed" was removed from the last paragraph.

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Mikolaj Izdebski
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