Ian Chapman wrote: > Hi, > > Is software licensed under or derived from the SGI FSL B > (http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/) suitable for inclusion in FE? I > would like to migrate GLEW (http://glew.sourceforge.net/) to FE if > possible, yet it's various parts are licensed under GPL / BSD / GLX > Public License and the SGI FSL B. > > According to gnu.org this license is not free because: > > "The "SGI Free Software License B", although its name says "free", is > not a Free Software License. It has three major problems. 1. It > restricts its patent license to unmodified versions of the software. 2. > It terminates if your use of the software infringes copyrights or > patents which are not SGI's. This is problematic because it gives SGI > grounds to sue you even when you have done nothing to them. 3. The > license requires you to inform SGI of legal problems with the software. > This violates your privacy rights, and can conflict with professional > confidentiality requirements, such as attorney-client privilege." > > This implies it's not suitable however certain parts of Mesa and other > packages are included in core that are licensed under SGI FSL B. > > Thanks. > glew is in Debian main, I didn't take a closer look if they stripped parts or something like that, but except for that, if its free enough for Debian its free enough for FE. Know I now my last legalish mail to this list about lbreakout shows that Debian gets legalise wrong sometimes too, that was a trademark issue and AFAIK Debian is much more strict with regards to the actual sourcecode licenses. Regards, Hans -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
