On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 07:45 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:56 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > The GPLv3 allows certain options to be taken, so that it becomes > > compatible with a number of other licences, such as BSD varients. > > > > Samba4 includes a number of pieces of such code in the form of Heimdal > > (a Kerberos implementation we currently have bundled), do I have to do > > make some special note (other than complying with the restrictions, by > > including copyright notices in the docs)? > > IANAL, and this should not be construed as legal advice. That disclaimer > out of the way, here's my opinion. > > As far as the code is concerned, you should note that there are > exceptions in the header attribution, something like: > > This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. As permitted by Section 10, the additional > exception permissions have been granted: I perhaps should have been more clear. A number of the licences impose particular (but resaonable, so GPLv3 compatible) restrictions requiring their particular notice be reproduced in various places. Complying with them is easy - I'll be including an aggregated list of these licences in a text file marked as %doc. > >From a Fedora perspective, any package that add exceptions to the GPLv3 should be > noted in its license tag with: > > License: GPLv3 with exceptions > > or > > License: GPLv3+ with exceptions > > ... depending on whether the license attribution states v3 only or v3 or later. I'm presuming for these cases it would be GPLv3+ with permitted restrictions? Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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