On 12/25/2013 03:52 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to package the openlibm library [1] which is a dependency of > the Julia language [2]. The original license of the project, besides > later contributions which are under BSD and MIT licenses, is an > apparently custom license whose text is as follows (see [3]): > > Copyright (C) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. > > Developed at SunPro, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business. > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this > software is freely granted, provided that this notice > is preserved. > > The text looks like slightly contradictory since it starts stating "All > rights reserved" before granting the rights to do mostly anything you > want with the code given the license is preserved. I guess it is OK to > ship it, but I would like a confirmation for more clued people. > > As a secondary point, how should I indicate the license in the License > field of the .spec file? FDLIBM and BSD and MIT? "All Rights Reserved" is a Legalese no-op (it used to mean something once, but post-Berne convention, it doesn't mean anything). You can ignore it entirely. Let's just call that SunPro license MIT and move on. It isn't unique enough to merit a new license name. ~tom == ¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º> OSAS @ Red Hat University Outreach || Fedora Special Projects || Fedora Legal _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
