On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 14:50 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > In PortableXDR [0] we have used some old (1988) Sun RPC code which has > the license text below. The question arose during review for > inclusion in Fedora[1] what this license is, and whether it can be > included in Fedora. > > Note that this code has been extensively used and modified all over > the place, so if this license isn't free, and if Sun didn't relicense > it since 1988, then we may have a problem. Yes, we have a problem. We've been trying to work with Sun to relicense this code under something free and GPL compatible, but things are moving slowly on this front. Until this issue is resolved, nothing new can come into Fedora under that license. I'll try to poke Sun again today. Thanks, ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
