Le lundi 30 décembre 2013 à 12:51 -0500, Tom Callaway a écrit : > 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. Cool, thanks for the help! _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
