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>>>>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> Dear Everyone, sys-libs/glibc contains LICENSE="LGPL-2", but it |
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> would appear to be subject to roughly a dozen licenses, many of |
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> which are not in the tree? |
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> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=LICENSES;h=80f7f1487947f57815b9fe076fadc8c7f94eeb8e;hb=HEAD |
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> I can spot BSD-4, ISC and sun-rpc. There is also a license that |
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> intel-ucode, but has had the provisions changed. There are also |
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> numerous other licenses that I am seeing for the first time. |
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I see the following (by quickly looking at it with the naked eye, |
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so it should be redone more thorougly, in order not to miss any |
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differences): |
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BSD (line 9, originally BSD-4 but 3rd clause removed) |
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HPND (line 41) |
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ISC (line 63) |
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BSD (line 80) |
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HPND (line 113) |
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BSD (line 141) |
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BSD (line 168) |
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"The Inner Net License, Version 2.00" (line 204) |
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LGPL-2.1+ (line 242) |
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LGPL-2.1+ (line 251) |
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"LGPL" (line 271, no version specified) |
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ISOC-rfc (line 279) |
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BSD (line 320) |
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HPND (line 349) |
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rc (line 371) |
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"PCRE" (line 394) |
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"preserve notice" style (line 435) |
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"preserve notice" style (line 444) |
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LGPL-2.1+ (line 453) |
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We're essentially missing "The Inner Net License, Version 2.00" and |
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"PCRE" which however both look like Free Software licenses. |
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The only one that I would be worried about is ISOC-rfc, but it is |
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preceded by an escape clause: "Derivative works need not be licensed |
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under similar terms." |
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> Does anyone have any thoughts on how we should handle this? |
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Best if you file a bug, so that the issue can be properly tracked. |
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Ulrich |
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