[Fedora-legal-list] objenesis - files with unclear licensing

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Mar 9 16:13:59 UTC 2015


On 03/09/2015 09:41 AM, Michal Srb wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Package "objenesis" in Fedora contains two files with following license
> header:
> 
> /**
>  * COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
>  *
>  * This code is Copyright (c) 2006 BEA Systems, inc. It is provided
> free, as-is and without any warranties for the purpose of
>  * inclusion in Objenesis or any other open source project with a FSF
> approved license, as long as this notice is not
>  * removed. There are no limitations on modifying or repackaging the
> code apart from this.
>  *
>  * BEA does not guarantee that the code works, and provides no support
> for it. Use at your own risk.
>  *
>  * Originally developed by Leonardo Mesquita. Copyright notice added by
> Henrik St\u00E0hl, BEA JRockit Product Manager.
>  *
>  */
> 
> Does this mean that these files are licensed under ASL 2.0 as the rest
> of the objenesis project? [1]

Yes, you can treat those files as being sublicensed under ASL 2.0, as
the rest of Objenesis is.

~tom

==
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