On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:19:54PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > I just discovered that some of the copyright statements in xfree86's > copyright file have clauses that we usually consider non-free. > Normally I'd just file a bug, but given that the maintainer of xfree86 > is commonly known to know what he's doing, I'll ask here in advance: > What is it that I am missing? Did we change our interpretation > recently such that the clauses below now meet the DFSG? Please don't make any assumption that I knew what I was doing there. :) Getting a comprehensive list of all licenses applicable to the bits in XFree86 has been a major in the ass and even today I'm not sure it's complete (the debian/copyright file in the 4.3.0 pre-releae packages is 1,327 lines). I'd appreciate a re-analysis of the following. As an interested party I will sit it out if I can, and act upon the consensus of the participants in the discussion. > (from the "GLX PUBLIC LICENSE", and as far as I can eyeball also repeated > verbatim in the "CID FONT CODE PUBLIC LICENSE":) I believe that's the case because these are really just copies of the "IBM Public License", a.k.a. "Common Public License", with the names changed to protect the guilty. > 7. Compliance with Laws; Non-Infringement. Recipient shall comply with all > applicable laws and regulations in connection with use and distribution of > the Subject Software, including but not limited to, all export and import > control laws and regulations of the U.S. government and other countries. > Recipient may not distribute Subject Software that (i) in any way infringes > (directly or contributorily) the rights (including patent, copyright, trade > secret, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any kind) of any > other person or entity or (ii) breaches any representation or warranty, > express, implied or statutory, which under any applicable law it might be > deemed to have been distributed. > > 8. Claims of Infringement. If Recipient at any time has knowledge of any one > or more third party claims that reproduction, modification, use, distribu- > tion, import or sale of Subject Software (including particular functionality > or code incorporated in Subject Software) infringes the third party's intel- > lectual property rights, Recipient must place in a well-identified web page > bearing the title "LEGAL" a description of each such claim and a description > of the party making each such claim in sufficient detail that a user of the > Subject Software will know whom to contact regarding the claim. Also, upon > gaining such knowledge of any such claim, Recipient must conspicuously > include the URL for such web page in the Exhibit A notice required under Sec- > tions 2 and 3, above, and in the text of any related documentation, license > agreement or collateral in which Recipient describes end user's rights relat- > ing to the Subject Software. If Recipient obtains such knowledge after it > makes Subject Software available to any other person or entity, Recipient > shall take other steps (such as notifying appropriate mailing lists or news- > groups) reasonably calculated to inform those who received the Subject Soft- > ware that new knowledge has been obtained. > > (From the "SGI FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE B"): > > 7. Claims of Infringement. If Recipient learns of any third party claim > that any disposition of Covered Code and/or functionality wholly or > partially infringes the third party's intellectual property rights, > Recipient will promptly notify SGI of such claim. -- G. Branden Robinson | Computer security is like an onion: Debian GNU/Linux | the more you dig in, the more you branden@debian.org | want to cry. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Cory Altheide
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