On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:44:38 -0500 John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 06:31:03PM +0300, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > Hello John! > > > > I'm sure, that GPL does NOT cover the text of the README, since it > > simply a dump of web-page, and I didn't think they licensed their > > site contents under GPL :) > > > > > Perhaps README.openfwwf needs to be removed or revised? > > > > Although, I almost absolutely think that nobody will sue Redhat for > > inclusion of this text, I think, that properly re-licensing a > > README is a generally good idea. At least we should ask upstream for > > clarification - could you ask someone, who skilled enough in solving > > these boring legal issues? I could contact them by myself, but I'n > > not sure, what should I ask them. To send us e-mail with license > > clarification or to add README (listed below) to their tarball. > > > > Just for the reference - here is a full text of README > > > > http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/b43-openfwwf/devel/README.openfwwf?view=co > > > > -- > > With best regards, Peter Lemenkov. > > Peter, thanks for the quick reply! > > Perhaps fedora-legal can provide useful advice? I asked upstream: [...] > To make sure Fedora is not doing anything wrong, I'd like to ask > you kindly to either: > a) confirm that you are fine with the contents of the webpage being > distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 (i.e. the same license as > OpenFWWF itself). > (Optionally, you could put the README file into the tarball in > the next release of OpenFWWF - other Linux distributions would > surely welcome it too.); or > b) let me know that you do not wish the text from your webpage to be > copied and redistributed. In this case Fedora will remove > README.openfwwf from the package as soon as possible. I received a reply from OpenFWWF developer Francesco Gringoli: > no problem for the content. And thanks to your message I discovered > only now that the copyright message that you report in your web page > > (c) 2008 My Website. Design by NodeThirtyThree + Free CSS > Templates. Edited by Lorenzo Nava > > has nothing to do with our project ! it was the original copyright > message from the cms we used. > > Please feel free to copy the web page, but please do remove the > copyright message from the ascii text you will distribute. > > Many thanks to you, > cheers, > -Francesco So we have the permission. We just need to remove the mistaken copyright attribution. Michal _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
