Re: Libapache-mod-backhand: load balancing Apache requests.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, James Bromberger wrote:
>
>Dear Legal List,
>
>I have been asked to bring the licence for a package I am preparing for
>unstable, which I am hoping will go into main, to this list hoping to
>get a concensus that the licence is DSFG OK.
>
>The package is an Apache module, libapache-mod-backhand, which performs
>application level load balancing of HTTP requests between Apache and
>backhand enabled servers. It is written by Yair Amir and Theo Schlossnagle
>at John Hopkins University. I sat in on Theo's presentation of mod-backhand
>at ApacheCon Europe last October in London, and he inidcated it was
>distributed under an Apache style licence; my impresion was that this would
>be DFSG compatible.
>
>I noticed a Request For Packaging around December, and after contacting
>Theo and him approving of me doing this, I set about inserting myself in the
>NM queue and packaging the module.
>
>Ralf Treinen has raised some concern with sections 4, 5 and 6, and the
>ultimate senntence in the licence, which I post here in full:
>
>/* ====================================================================
> * Copyright (c) 1998-1999 The Johns Hopkins University.
> * All rights reserved.
> *
> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> * are met:
> *
> * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> *
> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
> * the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
> * distribution.
> *
> * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
> * software must display the following acknowledgment:
> * "This product includes software developed at The Center for
> * Networking and Distributed Systems at The Johns Hopkins University
> * for use in the Backhand project (http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/backhand).
> * Creator: Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@cnds.jhu.edu>
> * Guidance: Yair Amir <yairamir@cs.jhu.edu>"
GPL incompatible, DFSG free.
> * 4. The names "Backhand" and "mod_backhand" must not be used to
> * endorse or promote products derived from this software without
> * prior written permission. For written permission, please contact
> * backhand@cnds.jhu.edu.
DFSG 4 stuff. Kind of bad, but not enough to consign it to non-free.
> * 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "mod_backhand"
> * nor may "mod_backhand" appear in their names without prior written
> * permission. For written permission, please contact
> * backhand@cnds.jhu.edu.
UUUUUUGLY! Pine license issues!!!! NON-FREE!
> * 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
> * acknowledgment:
> * "This product includes software developed at The Center for
> * Networking and Distributed Systems at The Johns Hopkins University
> * for use in the Backhand project (http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/backhand).
> * Creator: Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@cnds.jhu.edu>
> * Guidance: Yair Amir <yairamir@cs.jhu.edu>
> * All other contributors are listed in the NOTICE document provided
> * with this distribution."
> *
> * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
> * WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
> * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> * PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE APACHE GROUP OR
> * ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
> * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
> * NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
> * LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
> * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
> * STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
> * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED
> * OF THE P
Reply to: