Re: perforce SCM licensing issues
On 9/20/07, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> 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").
I'll attach it as a text file next time then.
>
> > ...
> > 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.
Yep, looks like it. Would need a special license grant even for non-free.
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