Gesendet: Sonntag, 12. Februar 2017 um 18:48 Uhr Von: "Bruno Friedmann" bruno@ioda-net.ch An: opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse-packaging] Question for license

On dimanche, 12 février 2017 12.36:22 h CET Eric Schirra wrote:

...

Hello,

I have an request for package lazarus. And in this request is an exclude for aggpas/gpc on the grounds that license is proplematic. In decription of license is called "not for commercial product" but free for non-commercial-use.

Here is the page:

http://crossgl.com/aggpas/aggpas-licence.htm http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/

And text from copying.txt:

Copyright: (C) 1997-1999, Advanced Interfaces Group, University of Manchester.

       This software is free for non-commercial use. It may be copied,
       modified, and redistributed provided that this copyright notice
       is preserved on all copies. The intellectual property rights of
       the algorithms used reside with the University of Manchester
       Advanced Interfaces Group.

       You may not use this software, in whole or in part, in support
       of any commercial product without the express consent of the
       author.

       There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this
       software for any purpose. It is provided solely "as is".

Can this now deliver in package or must it exclude?

Can someone from suse help me?

Hi Eric,

The license being 18 years old, it could be interesting (but certainly not easy) to convince the author group to relicense this to a more apropriate know spdx.org license. Otherwise, getting an express consent to be able to have it for openSUSE, then SUSE, then MicroFocus, and future HPE :-)

I'm afraid in other case the software will not be publishable on obs (but I'm not a layer).

If I remember correctly there's a legal position into bugzilla.

If you submit it to factory, a legal counsellor will review the license.

On lundi, 13 février 2017 12.06:05 h CET Eric Schirra wrote:

Am 2017-02-12 18:48, schrieb Bruno Friedmann:

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On dimanche, 12 février 2017 12.36:22 h CET Eric Schirra wrote:

...

Hello,

I have an request for package lazarus. And in this request is an exclude for aggpas/gpc on the grounds that license is proplematic. In decription of license is called "not for commercial product" but free for non-commercial-use.

Here is the page:

http://crossgl.com/aggpas/aggpas-licence.htm http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/

And text from copying.txt:

Copyright: (C) 1997-1999, Advanced Interfaces Group,

       University of Manchester.

       This software is free for non-commercial use. It may be

copied,

       modified, and redistributed provided that this copyright

notice

       is preserved on all copies. The intellectual property

rights of

       the algorithms used reside with the University of

Manchester

       Advanced Interfaces Group.

       You may not use this software, in whole or in part, in

support

       of any commercial product without the express consent of

the

       author.

       There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this
       software for any purpose. It is provided solely "as is".

Can this now deliver in package or must it exclude?

Can someone from suse help me?

Hi Eric,

The license being 18 years old, it could be interesting (but certainly not easy) to convince the author group to relicense this to a more apropriate know spdx.org license. Otherwise, getting an express consent to be able to have it for openSUSE, then SUSE, then MicroFocus, and future HPE :-)

I'm afraid in other case the software will not be publishable on obs (but I'm not a layer).

If I remember correctly there's a legal position into bugzilla.

Does it adequate only exclude SLES?

Nope as I can do commercial things with openSUSE too ... then having this kind of package would void this usage.

Bruno Friedmann wrote:

[...] Nope as I can do commercial things with openSUSE too ... then having this kind of package would void this usage.

It could be ok for the :NonFree repo though. Legal review will tell that on submit requests.

cu Ludwig