Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (491 mails)

[Christian Boltz <opensuse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Am Samstag, 4. Februar 2012 schrieb Nelson Marques:
> A license regarding the spec file? It's the first time I see this one
> comming...

It's not really new - the only difference is that in the past a 
"default" license header [1] was added silently(!) when you submitted to 
Factory. (Which I didn't really like because it claimed a copyright for 
SUSE - even if nobody @suse.com ever touched the specfile.)

Now things seem to have changed and you can - and have to - define the 
spec license yourself.

> Can it be CC-NC-SA 3.0 ? As I consider a spec file a work of art :)

The usual way is to use the same license as the package has (except for 
non-OSS packages), but I don't see a real problem with using a CC 
license.

However, the NC part might be a problem because it makes the license 
not-so-free. (SUSE could see problems if they decide to include your 
package in SLES/SLED, which is probably considered "commercial".)

CC-SA should be OK - if not, the factory legal review will tell you ;-)

Final note: IANAL ;-)

If you want a better answer, please ask on the opensuse-bar@xxxxxxxxxxxx
mailinglist. That's the list for discussing legal issues, and no, I have
no idea who invented that name.


Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] something like this:

#
# spec file for package postfixadmin
#
# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
#
# All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
# remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
# upon. The license for this file, and modifications and additions to the
# file, is the same license as for the pristine package itself (unless the
# license for the pristine package is not an Open Source License, in which
# case the license is the MIT License). An "Open Source License" is a
# license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
# published by the Open Source Initiative.

# Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/
#

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> [...] if the installation of a stupid package failed, [...]
AFAIK there is no package named `stupid'.
[> Raphael Schillings and Michael Gross in
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