On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 12:06 PM David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > xmalloc.c from tmux: > > /* > * Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@xxxxxxxxx> > * Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@xxxxxxxxx>, Espoo, Finland > * All rights reserved > * Created: Mon Mar 20 22:09:17 1995 ylo > * > * Versions of malloc and friends that check their results, and never return > * failure (they call fatal if they encounter an error). > * > * As far as I am concerned, the code I have written for this software > * can be used freely for any purpose. Any derived versions of this > * software must be clearly marked as such, and if the derived work is > * incompatible with the protocol description in the RFC file, it must be > * called by a name other than "ssh" or "Secure Shell". > */ > > Which to me means this originated from the original ssh, not that that's > relevant. Just historical. So how does this one match? I'm pretty sure it doesn't match anything currently on the SPDX license list. This would not be surprising. One of the main reasons why Fedora resisted using SPDX identifiers for so long was that the SPDX license list had pretty poor coverage of the range of licenses found in Linux distributions, especially for relatively old code. Of course now we are trying to remedy that situation. The first step here is to submit an issue to fedora-license-data to determine whether the license is allowed for Fedora. We can't assume that a license is allowed merely because Fedora has actually been distributing code under the license for a long time (although that is a relevant consideration). In this case, the allowability of the license is not immediately obvious because that naming restriction is pretty unusual. If the license is allowed then it would have to be submitted to SPDX because (if I'm right) it doesn't match a current SPDX license-list license. This license would not qualify for the "UltraPermissive" umbrella LicenseRef. 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
