On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:24 PM Ondřej Lysoněk <olysonek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > a new version of libevent bundles a file ax_prog_doxygen.m4 [1]. The > license text says the following: > > # Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are > # permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice > # and this notice are preserved. > > Not being a native speaker, I'm not sure how exactly to interpret that > sentence, but it sounds to me like there could be a restriction on > commercial use. > I think it's the opposite. I read this as "you are not charged for permission to copy and distribute this file". Since this notice must be preserved, I would say you can't charge to share this specific file, but if it's part of a larger work, I don't read this as prohibiting that. (In other words, you're charging for the larger work, not this specific file.) I am not a lawyer, though, so don't take this as an authoritative statement. -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
