[opensuse-factory] How to confirm the licenses?
Recently a bug report has been filled by the legal team regarding two sound files in KDE3' kdeartwork package: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754072 My further investigation showed that the same files included not only in KDE3 but also in KDE4, where all the sub packages of kdeartwork were tagged with the following "license": No license agreement found in package ; GPLv2+, LGPLv2+, LGPLv3, BSD3 aggregation Thus I wonder why the bugreport was filled only against KDE3, and not against KDE4 where not only these files, but all subpackages of kdeartwork are affected. Anyway I e-mailed to the files author and he said that nobody asked him for a license when he contributed this to KDE svn, but he can release the files under CC-BY-SA. It this sufficient to mark the package as licensed under these terms? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Thursday, March 29, 2012 05:14:36 Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Recently a bug report has been filled by the legal team regarding two sound files in KDE3' kdeartwork package: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754072
My further investigation showed that the same files included not only in KDE3 but also in KDE4, where all the sub packages of kdeartwork were tagged with the following "license":
No license agreement found in package ; GPLv2+, LGPLv2+, LGPLv3, BSD3 aggregation
Thus I wonder why the bugreport was filled only against KDE3, and not against KDE4 where not only these files, but all subpackages of kdeartwork are affected.
Anyway I e-mailed to the files author and he said that nobody asked him for a license when he contributed this to KDE svn, but he can release the files under CC-BY-SA.
It this sufficient to mark the package as licensed under these terms?
You should discuss this in bugzilla with the legal team, only they can answer this. Btw. there's opensuse-bar - the mailing list for legal issues, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:14:36AM +0400, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
Recently a bug report has been filled by the legal team regarding two sound files in KDE3' kdeartwork package: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754072
I'm getting You are not authorized to access bug #754072 which isn't the best sign. :)
My further investigation showed that the same files included not only in KDE3 but also in KDE4, where all the sub packages of kdeartwork were tagged with the following "license":
No license agreement found in package ; GPLv2+, LGPLv2+, LGPLv3, BSD3 aggregation
Thus I wonder why the bugreport was filled only against KDE3, and not against KDE4 where not only these files, but all subpackages of kdeartwork are affected.
Anyway I e-mailed to the files author and he said that nobody asked him for a license when he contributed this to KDE svn, but he can release the files under CC-BY-SA.
It this sufficient to mark the package as licensed under these terms?
a) The defect report must get public as you'll reference it in your KDE 3 package change log. b) Then you pass it to the KDE maintainers to get them to update their packages license RPM tag and package license lines if needed too. Cheers, Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team + SUSE Labs SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
On Saturday 31 March 2012 01:08:38 Lars Müller wrote:
a) The defect report must get public as you'll reference it in your KDE 3 package change log.
b) Then you pass it to the KDE maintainers to get them to update their packages license RPM tag and package license lines if needed too.
Seems the author does not respond any more. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Andreas Jaeger
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Ilya Chernykh
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