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Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> The website stills says GPL v3: |
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> http://nipper.titania.co.uk/licensing.php |
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Yep, the website's going to be updated for version 1.0 (with the license |
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change). |
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> ... |
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I can't really comment on a lot of this, unfortunately. |
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> Similar to the TrueCrypt issue, I'd say do NOT commit any ebuild covered |
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> by this license until the matter is resolved. |
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Yeah, that's what I was afraid of... |
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> ... legal comments ... |
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Again, I'm afraid I can't really comment on these, but thank you for the |
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analysis, it was much appreciated to have a second pair of eyes look |
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this stuff over. |
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>> Any patches or updates that the Licensee may develop for NIPPER must |
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>> be immediately submitted to the Licensor. In addition, the Licensee |
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>> will forthwith transfer without charge all current and future rights |
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>> including copyrights and other intellectual property rights relating |
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>> to such updates to the Licensor. |
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> Gentoo is NOT a licensee under any of the classes of use listed in the |
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> license. We don't use it, and we're not a commercial integrator. Ergo |
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> there is a loophole that allows us to patch it without losing our rights |
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> to the patches. HOWEVER, I'd be concerned that the context |
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> (non-modified) portions of the path are still bound by the original |
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> license, and would violate non-distribution. |
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I'm not keen on relying on loopholes. If I did still want to try and |
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get a version of this into the tree, would packaging the binary RPM seem |
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a reasonable solution? It's a shame given that the sources are |
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potentially available (primarily released for Gentoo) and no real |
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problem with making an ebuild, it's just the legalese... 5:( |
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So I'll leave the source version out of the tree, but I'd like thoughts |
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on using RPM as a solution? Also I don't know whether an exception |
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could be made for Gentoo, but equally I don't know how to phrase one of |
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them either (Gentoo Foundation or all Gentoo developers), so I'm |
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hesitant to ask. If anyone has any other ideas or possibilities, do let |
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me know. Thanks... |
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Mike 5:) |
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