On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > Thanks to Paul for his comment, and to Spot for acting on it; this issue have been resolved in bugzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171993). Deji > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
