On 02/27/2018 04:23 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > That is possibly the worst-written license I have seen in quite some > time, but I actually think it is acceptable for Fedora for the reasons > Tom and Eric gave. > > > Thanks Richard and Tom! What should I use for the License tag in the RPM? Use: License: CPM > I've sent email to Bryan Sparks asking whether he is still in a position > of authority to deal with CP/M licensing, and if so, whether he might > grant a license under a common open source license; I suggested possibly > BSD 2-clause. However, I have no idea whether the email address I found > for him will actually work. Oh man, that will be a fun one. It seems that Lineo was the last known owner of the CP/M copyright (Digital Research -> Novell -> Caldera -> Lineo), but Lineo was carved up and its assets went all over the place. I _think_ the most likely place is with DrDOS Inc. (formerly DeviceLogics), where Bryan Sparks is the current CEO (afaik). http://drdos.com/company/namagement/ > In the mean time, I'm intending to package "z80pack" for Fedora. That > includes emulation of various 8080 and Z80 systems. There are various > disk images included. I'll put the CP/M images in a subpackage. I think > there may be licensing issues with some of the other disk images, so I > may have to produce a cleaned source tarball that omits those. Yeah, be careful, but that sounds right. ~tom _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
