Re: Custom license for bencode.js

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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 09:46 AM, Stuart Gathman wrote:
>> The cjdns package - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268716
>> - is GPLv3, with some stuff BSD, MIT, and ISC.  I delete GPLv2 and ASL
>> 2.0 stuff in %prep.
>>
>> There is one file, bencode.js, with a custom license:
>>
>>  /* Copyright (c) 2009 Anton Ekblad
>>          Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
>> obtaining a copy
>>     of this software and associated documentation files (the
>> "Software"), to deal
>>     in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
>> the rights
>>     to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
>> sell
>>     copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
>>     furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>>          The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>> included in
>>     all copies or substantial portions of the Software. */
>>
>> IANAL, but it seems like BSD to me. But I was advised to ask
>> legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when in doubt.
>
> It's actually MIT. Specifically, the Modern Style with sublicense, with
> the warranty disclaimer omitted:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Modern_Style_with_sublicense
>
> Omitting the warranty disclaimer makes it... slightly less sensible for
> the copyright holder, but doesn't change anything for Fedora.

AFAIK, the ASL 2.0 stuff can coexist with GPLv3 stuff, right?



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