On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 12:06 PM David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And what about: > > /* > * Portions Copyright (c) 1995 by International Business Machines, Inc. > * > * International Business Machines, Inc. (hereinafter called IBM) grants > * permission under its copyrights to use, copy, modify, and distribute this > * Software with or without fee, provided that the above copyright notice and > * all paragraphs of this notice appear in all copies, and that the name of IBM > * not be used in connection with the marketing of any product incorporating > * the Software or modifications thereof, without specific, written prior > * permission. > * > * To the extent it has a right to do so, IBM grants an immunity from suit > * under its patents, if any, for the use, sale or manufacture of products to > * the extent that such products are used for performing Domain Name System > * dynamic updates in TCP/IP networks by means of the Software. No immunity is > * granted for any product per se or for any other function of any product. > * > * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", AND IBM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, > * INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A > * PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL IBM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, > * DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING > * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN > * IF IBM IS APPRISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. > */ This is pretty much an exact match to LicenseRef-IBM-BIND which is not allowed in Fedora. The one difference is that "name" appears as "legacy-name" which is so odd it made me wonder whether I'd miscopied it ... but now I see it must be the result of Miroslav's script that replaced "Fedora name" with "legacy-name". We have a couple of options here. We could create an exception for a particular use of this license in a package. Also IBM's Open Technology Counsel has indicated IBM's willingness and ability to relicense code under this license that was found in a couple of (other, I assume) packages. In all likelihood, though, the code you're seeing is the same as what was found in those other packages. The plan we had was to have the IBM license change done in glibc (which is probably the most significant project where this license is found) - I need to follow up with the IBM counsel about this. Richard _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
