legal June 2008

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6 discussions

NVIDIA license
by Mamoru Tasaka 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hello, all: Now I am trying to review rsssserver (bug 450409). First I checked the license issue of this package, then I found some of the codes are licensed under the below: /*********************************************************************NVMH1**** File: nv_algebra.h Copyright (C) 1999, 2002 NVIDIA Corporation This file is provided without support, instruction, or implied warranty of any kind. NVIDIA makes no guarantee of its fitness for a particular purpose and is not liable under any circumstances for any damages or loss whatsoever arising from the use or inability to use this file or items derived from it. Comments: ******************************************************************************/ Is this license allowed for Fedora? (if so, is this GPLv2 compatible?) Regards, Mamoru

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GPLv3+ + additionnal terms
by pablo.martin-gomez 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Hello all, I forecast packaging MicropolisCore, a free release of the first SimCity's version (quite rewritten),but when EA has released the software under GPLv3, they added the additional terms following (for information, the aim of the release is to propose out-of-box a game in the OLPC) : ------- ADDITIONAL TERMS per GNU GPL Section 7 No trademark or publicity rights are granted. This license does NOT give you any right, title or interest in the trademark SimCity or any other Electronic Arts trademark. You may not distribute any modification of this program using the trademark SimCity or claim any affliation or association with Electronic Arts Inc. or its employees. Any propagation or conveyance of this program must include this copyright notice and these terms. If you convey this program (or any modifications of it) and assume contractual liability for the program to recipients of it, you agree to indemnify Electronic Arts for any liability that those contractual assumptions impose on Electronic Arts. You may not misrepresent the origins of this program; modified versions of the program must be marked as such and not identified as the original program. This disclaimer supplements the one included in the General Public License. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS," WITH ALL FAULTS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND YOUR USE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE ENTIRE RISK OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE RESIDES WITH YOU. ELECTRONIC ARTS DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, AND WARRANTIES (IF ANY) ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE. ELECTRONIC ARTS DOES NOT WARRANT AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE PROGRAM; THAT THE PROGRAM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; THAT OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT THE PROGRAM WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE OR THAT ANY ERRORS IN THE PROGRAM WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN ADVICE PROVIDED BY ELECTRONIC ARTS OR ANY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF OR LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATIONS ON THE APPLICABLE STATUTORY RIGHTS OF A CONSUMER, SO SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. ------- Are they compatibles with the Fedora License Guidelines ? Regards, Pablo

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CVC3 License
by Jerry James 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

The CVC3 project [1] has a license [2] that is mostly New BSD (no advertising), but differs from it in a few ways. In particular, I am concerned about clause #3. Is this license acceptable for Fedora? Thank you. [1] http://www.cs.nyu.edu/acsys/cvc3/ [2] http://www.cs.nyu.edu/acsys/cvc3/doc/LICENSE.html -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/

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GL2PS License
by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Hi. I'd like to package gl2ps (http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/) which is dual-licensed under GPLv2+ and GL2PSv2+ (http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/COPYING.GL2PS) May I use the following License: tag in the spec file? License: LGPLv2+ or GLS2PSv2+ Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann Livna http://rpm.livna.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations"

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missing link
by Valent Turkovic 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal#Open_Legal_Issues there is a missing link for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues page. As I can't edit that wiki (restrictions?) page can somebody do it? Cheers, Valent. -- http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic

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And another license
by Jon Stanley 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

This looks possibly MIT-ish to me. Can someone confirm? (this is for scrip) ! Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 the Regents of the University of ! California. ! ! Unless otherwise indicated, this software has been authored ! by an employee or employees of the University of California, ! operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract ! No. W-7405-ENG-36 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. ! Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this ! software. The public may copy and use this software without ! charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship ! are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor the ! University makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes ! any liability or responsibility for the use of this software. ! !*********************************************************************** -- Jon Stanley Fedora Bug Wrangler jstanley(a)fedoraproject.org

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