On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:58 -0700, Wart wrote: > Can someone explain to this legally-challenged person what prevents the > SGI Free Software License B from being acceptable in Fedora? From: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ 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. To put it simply: code under SGI Free B cannot be modified without violating the license. ~spot -- 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
