Hi,
The HBAAPI project: http://hbaapi.sourceforge.net/ uses a license called the SNIA Public License Version 1.0. In the source header there is this:
* License: * The contents of this file are subject to the SNIA Public License * Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in * compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * /http://www.snia.org/English/Resources/Code/OpenSource.html * * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" * basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See * the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations * under the License.
The problem is that this SNAI licsense is not listed under good licenses here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing so I wanted to get it cleared, but the link to the license in the headers is a dead link.
If the maintainers of the code do not have a copy of the license and the people at SNIA do not respond to emails about it, what are my options? If I find something on google in another project that says it is the snia public license 1.0, can I include it with the source and send to you guys to get cleared? What if I cannot find 1.0 (I can find 1.1 but not 1.0)?
Do I just have to ditch the sourceforge project and write code from scratch and license it how I want?
Thanks
Mike
On 2009-02-26 at 11:12:38 -0500, Mike Christie mchristi@redhat.com wrote:
The problem is that this SNAI licsense is not listed under good licenses here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing so I wanted to get it cleared, but the link to the license in the headers is a dead link.
So, in looking into this, I noticed that the 1.1 license says this in its Exhibit A (which the license says you have to apply to your source code):
"The contents of this file are subject to the SNIA Public License Version 1.0 (the "License");"
This is why we are confused trying to track down a 1.0 version where none exists. The 1.1 versioning comes from the MPL, which is what this license is derived from. These files are actually under the 1.1 version, but because of the typo, they have to say 1.0. Sloppy, sloppy, and might be why SNIA isn't using this license anymore.
Nevertheless, the license is Free but GPL incompatible. I've added it to the Licensing list.
Use:
License: SNIA
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