Re: Re: Bug#532456: Are these licenses DFSG?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
> snoopy:~/softs/ekiga/opal-svn/plugins/audio/GSM0610$ more COPYRIGHT
> Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann,
> Technische Universitaet Berlin
>
> Any use of this software is permitted provided that this notice is not
> removed and that neither the authors nor the Technische Universitaet Berlin
> are deemed to have made any representations as to the suitability of this
> software for any purpose nor are held responsible for any defects of
> this software. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE.
No permissions to modify and distribute modified versions under the
same license. I imagine it was intended to be free software, but was
written in an age when men were men and wrote their own broken
licenses. A better license would be the MIT/Expat license or maybe the
BSD license.
> G726:
> * This source code is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is provided
> * for unrestricted use. Users may copy or modify this source code without
> * charge.
> *
> * SUN SOURCE CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITH NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND
> INCLUDING
> * THE WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> * PURPOSE, OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE OR TRADE PRACTICE.
> *
> * Sun source code is provided with no support and without any
> obligation on
> * the part of Sun Microsystems, Inc. to assist in its use, correction,
> * modification or enhancement.
> *
> * SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE
> * INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHTS, TRADE SECRETS OR ANY PATENTS BY THIS
> SOFTWARE
> * OR ANY PART THEREOF.
> *
> * In no event will Sun Microsystems, Inc. be liable for any lost revenue
> * or profits or other special, indirect and consequential damages, even if
> * Sun has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
No permissions to distribute modified or unmodified versions under the
same license. I imagine it was intended to be free software, but was
written in an age when men were men and wrote their own broken
licenses. A better license would be the MIT/Expat license or maybe the
BSD license.
> LPC_10: I do not see any license in src sub-directory.
Worrying, but maybe OK if you can find out if the author meant it to
be under the same license as the rest of the source package.
> Speex: snoopy:~/softs/ekiga/opal-svn/plugins/audio/Speex$ more COPYING
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> are met:
>
> - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>
> - 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.
>
> - Neither the name of the Xiph.org Foundation nor the names of its
> contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
> this software without specific prior written permission.
>
> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
> ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS 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 FOUNDATION OR
> 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 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Basically the 3-clause BSD license, DFSG-free.
Please get upstream to strip that out of the source package and depend
on the external speex library (see Debian Policy 4.13). You should
notify the security team about the embedded code copy here too.
> gsm-amr: snoopy:~/softs/ekiga/opal-svn/plugins/audio/gsm-amr/src$ more
> amrcodec.txt
> This plugin implements an interface to the AMR-NB codec for OpenH323.
>
> For licensing reasons, the amr codec itself is not distributed with this
> plugin. Instead, you must download it yourself from
> http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/26_series/26.104/26104-610.zip
>
> Unzip that file, and unzip the file 26104-610_ANSI_C_source_code.zip within
> it into this directory.
You might like to point upstream at this free implementation of AMR-NB:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/libopencore-amrnb-dev
There is also an AMR-WB implementation:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/libopencore-amrwb-dev
Please make sure they don't add it as an embedded code copy.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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