Re: mininet license

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Yes, thanks, the maintainer told me, and the package is already part of Fedora.

Iñaki

El mié., 13 jul. 2022 23:11, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
You have probably already seen this but it looks like upstream has
switched to 3-clause BSD (SPDX: BSD-3-Clause):
https://github.com/mininet/mininet/blob/master/LICENSE

Richard

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:59 PM Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 17:08, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Kind reminder that the package was accepted [1], and we are blocking on legal.
> > >
> > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2072115
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Unfortunately we have decided this license does not meet Fedora's
> > minimum standards for a free software/open source license.
> >
> > The license may continue to be tolerated for software that is
> > currently packaged in Fedora, but would not be allowed for future
> > packages.
>
> So it's ok for OpenvSwitch I guess because it's a key technology
> nowadays, but not for this. [shrugs]
>
> Thanks anyway for your consideration.
> Iñaki
>
> > My recommendation would be to try to get the upstream developers to
> > switch to an OSI-approved permissive license like the MIT license.
> >
> > Richard
> >
>
>
> --
> Iñaki Úcar
>


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