On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 22:56 -0400, Deji Akingunola wrote: > Hi, > > > I've been trying to get mpich2 into Fedora for quite a long time now > [1]. At this time all the technical issues blocking its inclusion > seems to have been solved; however Jason Tibbitts did raise an issue > with the licensing. mpich2 package doesn't contain any licensing text, > but it ships with a copyright notice which include a 'GOVERNMENT > LICENSE' and a 'DISCLAIMER' sections, and also simply stating > 'Permission is hereby granted to use, reproduce, prepare derivative > works, and > to redistribute to others.' > I've had the review ticket blocking FE-legal, but nothing is happening > on that front yet. I hope FE-legal can look into this and make a > decision, the upstream is really interested in having the package > distributed as part of Fedora. > Thank you. Typical IANAL-speak, but the US Government is usually required to have a license for itself, any other licensing notwithstanding, as a condition of acceptance of paid work. AFAIK, that license is additive, not restrictive. The license appears to be MIT-ish to me, but Spot can probably vet this more easily than I. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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