On Mon, 2020-08-03 at 18:24 +0200, Ondřej Lysoněk 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. > > (What got me additionally confused is that the file is hosted on gnu.org.) > > Is this a Free software license or not? Yes, namely: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GNUAllPermissive https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FSFAP -- Yaakov Selkowitz Senior Software Engineer - Platform Enablement Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ 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
