On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 01:01:38PM +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hi folks, > > Could someone please look at this license[1] and decide if it can be > included in fedora? I found a thread here that says its > gpl-incompatible, but I want to just make sure. It is not a free software license, for at least the following reason: clause 1(c) contains a restriction on commercial use that appears to be nonfree based on the Sun RPC precedent[0]. In quick net search I found some information suggesting software under this license may have later been licensed under LGPL, so you may want to look into that. - RF [0]See http://spot.livejournal.com/315383.html > > The j3d library makes use of this. I was in the middle of packaging it. > > Thanks, > Ankur > > [1] > http://ankursinha.fedorapeople.org/licenses/THIRDPARTY-LICENSE-DISTANCE.txt > > > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list > legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal -- Richard E. Fontana Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
