Re: [opensuse-packaging] Question about licenses and openSUSE OBS / packaging.
On 05.06.2012 13:10, Joop Boonen wrote:
I found this link: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Accepted_licences#Good_Licenses_3 With acceptable licenses.
I have a few questions. 1) Is this official. Check the first paragraph of this page - this is a purely private page cloning some Fedora page. It was a nice idea, but never took off.
2) If does it apply all OBS non home projects of only Factory? No, OBS has it's own policy: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_application_blacklist
Is a data package that may be only be redistributed non commercially OK
for project games?
That basically meets this license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
That does not match OSI and as such is not allowed in the OBS. The
On Tue, June 5, 2012 1:35 pm, Stephan Kulow wrote: problem is that you put our mirrors in a rather bad position if they are distributing OBS repos as part of their commercial offering (ok, I'm not a lawyer, just wanting to point out a possible problem we don't even want to start discussing).
There is enough great OSI compliant software around to keep OBS busy.
Do you know if any OSI compatible non commercial use license exists, or is the non commercial part already cause an issue? (This is related to the data that is used by a GPLv2(+) game engines). Like world of padman, smokin guns etc.
Greetings, Stephan
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On Jun 05, 12 14:26:13 +0200, Joop Boonen wrote:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ That does not match OSI and as such is not allowed in the OBS. The problem is that you put our mirrors in a rather bad position if they are distributing OBS repos as part of their commercial offering (ok, I'm not a lawyer, just wanting to point out a possible problem we don't even want to start discussing).
There is enough great OSI compliant software around to keep OBS busy. Do you know if any OSI compatible non commercial use license exists, or is the non commercial part already cause an issue?
Already an issue. http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd says: ] 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor ] ] The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a ] specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program ] from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 say #263A!__/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, J.Guild, F.Imendoerffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg), Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. ☺ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org
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