On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:49:55 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 01 juillet 2010 à 00:40 +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo a > écrit : > > > Of course, the quickest and easiest solution, until the licensing is > > > clarified, is dropping the scripts from the package... [...] > > Maybe they should provide a separate package with it and that's all, and not > > bothering shipping it in normal source packages of the rest of Aqsis, and > > thus avoid installing it with normal CMake building system. > > As long as the script itself is free, there is no point in removing it > from the source package. Just don’t ship it in the binary. The > requirement to remove non-free files is for non-free files. Not for > files that relate to non-free software. I agree with you, Josselin, but I am under the impression the script itself fails to comply with the DFSG. As previously discussed, there's no copyright notice and the only legalese states: # This document is under CC-3.0 Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 # http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # Attribution: There is no requirement to attribute the author. [...] Frankly speaking, this notice does not seem to talk about the script (it's unlikely that the copyright owner refers to the script as "This document"...). Hence, as I said, until the licensing is clarified, the quickest and easiest solution is dropping the script from the orig.tar.gz package. [...] > > $ head -7 shaders/surface/metal.sl > > /* metal.sl - Standard metal surface for RenderMan Interface. > > * (c) Copyright 1988, Pixar. > > * > > * The RenderMan (R) Interface Procedures and RIB Protocol are: > > * Copyright 1988, 1989, Pixar. All rights reserved. > > * RenderMan (R) is a registered trademark of Pixar. > > */ > > > > I tried to find the answers in Pixar's website, but I found none. I think > > that it's a kind of OpenGL, but I don't know if things like "All rights > > reserved" means that they can forbid people using them, like the (already > > several) FOSS implementations (aqsis, pixie, jrman). > > This looks much more worrisome to me. There is no license for use or > redistribution here. I’m surprised the FTP masters let this slip > through. I am surprised too. Above all, I am surprised that we seem to be first ones to notice this issue, which allegedly affects several rendering tools... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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