Re: perforce SCM licensing issues

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

ajdlinux@gmail.com writes:

> The standard Perforce commercial EULA, from
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/contracts/commercial.pdf

Thanks for this courtesy. A request: when posting paragraphs of text,
please make sure the lines wrap properly (which, in practice, also
implies "don't use gmail").

> ...
>       4. Grants of License
> ...
>       C. Customer may make any additional copies of the Software to
> the extent necessary for use of the
>            Program. In addition, Customer may copy the Software for
> archival or backup purposes. Customer
>            shall reproduce and include copyright or other proprietary
> notices on any copies in substantially
>            the same form as appears in or on the original copies
> provided to Customer.

Grants only permission to copy "to the extent necessary for use of the
Program".

No permission to redistribute is granted here or anywhere else in the
license terms.

> ...
>       E. Perforce hereby reserves all rights in and to the Software
> that are not specifically granted by this
>            License Agreement.
> ...

So, Debian has no grant of license from these terms to redistribute at
all.

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Ben Finney