-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/2014 01:38 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > You probably want to ask that question on the fedora legal list or > open up a ticket on the fedora legal trac instance. I can't see > anything wrong with it but I can't speak with any authority on > legal issues. > > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-legal/ > > -Toshio > > On Jan 14, 2014 10:30 PM, "Johan Swensson" <kupo@xxxxxxx > <mailto:kupo@xxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking into packaging a software that provides a LICENSE file > which only contains this: > > "Everyone is permitted to do anything on this program including > copying, modifying, and improving, unless you try to pretend that > you wrote it. i.e., the above copyright notice has to appear in all > copies. I'm not a lawyer, but I suspect that this line ^^ represents an unenforceable clause. Essentially, it's unspecified what "pretend you wrote it" means in a legal sense. And by the wording of the rest of it, it sounds like if you failed to conform to that ambiguous definition, you lose rights to do anything at all with the code. Frankly, I'd be asking upstream to switch to the BSD two-clause, which requires that the code retain the copyright information. It seems to me that this license covers exactly what they're trying to say here, but with acceptable language. > THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY WITH REGARD TO THIS > SOFTWARE." > > I'm trying to get upstream to clarify but in the meantime I throw > out a question here as well. Is this a proper license we can use in > Fedora? If so which license would I put in the License: field? -- > packaging mailing list packaging@lists.fedoraproject.__org > <mailto:packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > https://admin.fedoraproject.__org/mailman/listinfo/packaging > <https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging> > > > > -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLWj4kACgkQeiVVYja6o6PYZgCfb2bxjSUsBWNIU+icw+bNV8Y7 ce4AnRO2IDjkTnFfWRHlvzn1JVUX+D+e =OvSV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
