I contacted Larry, Carl, and Ric and kindly asked Larry and Carl to remove
these licensing restrictions.
Martin
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Betreff: Fwd: Re: ITP fsmark - bug 655224: License restriction for lib_timing.c
DFSG compliant?
Datum: Dienstag, 10. Januar 2012, 15:50:02
Von: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
An: Larry McVoy <…>, Carl Staelin <…>, Carl Staelin <…>, Carl Staelin <…>
Kopie: "Ric Wheeler" <…>, Carl Staelin <…>
Hi Larry, Carl and Ric!
I am currently into packaging fs_mark for debian, see:
ITP: fsmark -- benchmark for simulating synchronous write workloads
http://bugs.debian.org/655224
During filling out the debian/copyright file I found additional license
restrictions in lib_timing.c that according to Ben Finney are not compliant
with the GPL and also not with the DFSG.
Especially being not compliant with the GPL itself according makes it
impossible for Debian - or anyone else except the authoers - to distribute
fsmark at all according to Ben.
Thus I ask you, Carl and Larry, kindly to consider removing these license
restriction in order to allow redistribution of fs_mark for Debian or any
other recipient of the software source.
I kindly also ask you to choose a version of GPL, for example GPL 2 or later
for clarity. Cause otherwise I as the packager need to choose one and its not
clear whether this holds up if challenged.
Ric, Carl and Larry, I kindly also ask you to review the copyright information
in the other files and update it as you see fit.
Ric and Larry, I was not able to find a recent mail address from Carl so I
tried some guess work. In case you have a recent mail address feel free to
forward my mail to him.
Many thanks,
Martin Steigerwald
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Betreff: Re: ITP fsmark - bug 655224: License restriction for lib_timing.c DFSG
compliant?
Datum: Dienstag, 10. Januar 2012, 11:39:11
Von: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
An: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de> writes:
> On packaging fs_mark I found
>
> 8 * Copyright (c) 2000 Carl Staelin.
> 9 * Copyright (c) 1994-1998 Larry McVoy.
> 10 * Distributed under the FSF GPL with
> 11 * additional restriction that results may published only if
> 12 * (1) the benchmark is unmodified, and
> 13 * (2) the version in the sccsid below is included in the report.
No version of the GPL is specified. That's often taken to mean “whatever
version you, the recipient, choose”. I don't know how well that would
hold up if challenged.
These additions are not compatible with the GPL which, in GPLv3 §10 says
“You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the
rights granted or affirmed under this License.”
> Is this restriction DFSG compliant?
It's not only not compliant with the DFSG; it's not compliant with the
GPL itself. So the recipient has no effective grant of license to
redistribute.
I hope you can contact upstream and notify them that the terms do not
grant effective license to any recipient, and encourage them to remove
those additional restrictions.
--
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