On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:52 AM Robert-André Mauchin <zebob.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The following license is lifted from a code coming from NetBSD > (ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/sjg/ ) but I cannot find exactly > the text of this license anywhere else: > > # This file is provided in the hope that it will > # be of use. There is absolutely NO WARRANTY. > # Permission to copy, redistribute or otherwise > # use this file is hereby granted provided that > # the above copyright notice and this notice are > # left intact. > > Is this considered BSD-like? > Maybe! How old is it? There's a loose precedent of accepting these sorts of short permissive licenses so long as there's nothing to indicate that they're intending to disallow modification. "Otherwise use" could certainly be construed to permit modification in this case. But it's generally applied to text from, say, 25ish years ago. So if it's very old, we could permit it. If it's from this century, it's probably better for upstream to put a "real" license on it. -- 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
