On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 08:49:55 +0400 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > The stardict project was recently removed from SF due to unspecified > legal issues. In fact it was moved to Google Code, which was very > surprising to me, because I can hardly imagine a legal issue valid on > SF but invalid on Google Code. > > Anyway, keeping in mind that the project owners claimed that "the > legal issues may never have been resolved" I think it's time to > reconsider whether we can ship it or not. > > * http://stardict.sourceforge.net/ > * http://code.google.com/p/stardict-3/ > I'm not involved in fedora, i'm just commenting based on a checkout from google code above. * main licence listed as GPL3+ * Some files have copyright notices before 2007 which is when GPL3 was released - i didn't search the 'net to try and find references to the listed author authorising a latter licence. (eg dict/tests/t_fuzzy.cpp dict/tests/t_dict_client.cpp) * A file appears to be CPL, which the wiki says is not GPL compatible [1]. I didn't check if this file is built in or not. (eg dict/stardict-plugins/stardict-wordnet-plugin/tenis.h ) * Some files appears to have no licence, i don't know if if it is assumed to be under the main licence or not. (eg dict/src/sigc++config/sigc++config.h dict/src/sigc++/signal.h) * Following on from that point, lots of files (without copyright notices) say they are generated. From what? signal.h above is an example. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses A close examination would probably show more, i found that lot by running the licencecheck script (in debian - does fedora have one?) and double checking the file headers. thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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