On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 17:12, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 11:34 AM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > This license is closest to MIT, but adds a custom lead-in (groan) at the beginning and a trademark restriction at the end. The authors should not refer to is as "BSD", nor "OSI-Approved" as that is a false statement. They really ought to fix that (or just put it under the regular BSD-3-Clause or MIT!) > > > > As for being acceptable for Fedora - I'd be curious to hear Richard's thoughts on the trademark restriction. > > So the clause in question is this: > > "The name and trademarks of copyright holder(s) may NOT be used in > advertising or publicity pertaining to the Software or any derivatives > without specific, written prior permission." > > The license seems to have first appeared in a related project coming > out of Stanford, Openflow. The quoted language seems to me to be more > restrictive (and also ambiguous) than counterpart language in well > known FOSS licenses (e.g. clause 3 of the 3-clause BSD license [SPDX: > BSD-3-Clause]). > > My initial reaction is that this license is not FOSS and thus is not > ok for Fedora. But, we have several MIT variants listed with a similar clause about "advertising and publicity": https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT Iñaki > Also a pretty good example of how upstream license metadata is untrustworthy. > > Richard > > > > > Thanks, > > Jilayne > > > > On 3/18/22 9:21 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Is this license [1] acceptable for Fedora and what would be the > > appropriate identifier for the License field? It seems to me some sort > > of BSD, and in fact the authors themselves identify it as such in the > > setup.py file [2], but I'd like to be sure. > > > > [1] https://github.com/mininet/mininet/blob/master/LICENSE > > [2] https://github.com/mininet/mininet/blob/master/setup.py > -- Iñaki Úcar _______________________________________________ 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
