Re: Non-free package licenses and replacements
In linux.debian.devel, Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:
> On Jan 24, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>> [mrouted]
>> If anyone actually cares, I may be able to get this relicensed and am
>> willing to at least try. I'm mildly surprised that anyone is still
>> using this.
> Two weeks ago I opened #227146 but the maintainer did not reply:
> The OpenBSD people managed to have stanford relicense it:
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.sbin/mrouted/LICENSE
*heh*. Yes, the comment there pretty much sums up what I would expect.
The difficulty with relicensing software written at Stanford isn't really
the willingness, but rather trying to find someone who's actually willing
to stand up and say that they have the authority to relicense things.
It's very, very difficult to get past the endless run-around, and the
Office of Technology Licensing is pretty much completely uninterested in
being helpful in my experience.
Thankfully, at least in the infrastructure side of things, I've made some
progress in getting Stanford to use a good license in the first place.
(See, for example, <http://webauthv3.stanford.edu/>.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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