Henry Spencer's license
by Petr Šabata
Dear legal,
While checking the contents of our `perl' package, I noticed the following:
(...)
/* NOTE: this is derived from Henry Spencer's regexp code, and should not
* confused with the original package (see point 3 below). Thanks, Henry!
*/
/* Additional note: this code is very heavily munged from Henry's version
* in places. In some spots I've traded clarity for efficiency, so don't
* blame Henry for some of the lack of readability.
*/
/* The names of the functions have been changed from regcomp and
* regexec to pregcomp and pregexec in order to avoid conflicts
* with the POSIX routines of the same names.
*/
(...)
* pregcomp and pregexec -- regsub and regerror are not used in perl
*
* Copyright (c) 1986 by University of Toronto.
* Written by Henry Spencer. Not derived from licensed software.
*
* Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
* purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it freely,
* subject to the following restrictions:
*
* 1. The author is not responsible for the consequences of use of
* this software, no matter how awful, even if they arise
* from defects in it.
*
* 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either
* by explicit claim or by omission.
*
* 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
* be misrepresented as being the original software.
*
**** Alterations to Henry's code are...
****
**** Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
**** 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
**** by Larry Wall and others
****
**** You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
**** License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file.
(...)
You can see the whole file here:
https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.20.1/regexec.c
I looked but couldn't find any common name for this license
of Henry's. Is it on our list? Is it free? What name should
I use in the License tag?
Thank you,
Petr
2 weeks, 2 days
Announcement: fdk-aac
by Tom Callaway
Hi Fedorans!
Today, a Third-Party Modified Version of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec
Library for Android has been cleared for inclusion in Fedora. This
specific library has been modified to be useful with Linux and
gstreamer, and provides some support for encoding and decoding of the
AAC digital audio codec.
The package containing this library is called "fdk-aac".
No other AAC implementations (regardless of copyright license) are
permitted in Fedora at this time.
Thanks,
Tom Callaway
5 years, 5 months
Re: S3TC / libtxc_dxtn
by Tom Callaway
Also, fwiw, I gave Adam the all clear on this, I've just been traveling and
hadn't had a chance to reply to this thread until now.
~tom
On Oct 3, 2017 2:35 PM, "Adam Jackson" <ajax(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 07:32 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Yanko Kaneti <yaneti(a)declera.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 14:46 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > With the S3TC patent expired[1], can we pull libtxc_dxtn into Fedora
> > > proper now?
> >
> > This seems to be going directly into mesa proper and probably
> > backported to older (17.x) mesa-s that Fedora cares about.
> >
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=
04396a134f003aece573df593acfa1ab4418ffe8
> >
>
> On the contrary, it looks like it's *not* getting backported because
> they're removing the dlopen() stuff to go with it, since that's not
> needed anymore.
Fortunately I have git-cherry-pick so I don't have to care what
upstream does.
F26 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=979594
F27 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=979591
F28 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=979562
I'll submit bodhi updates once they complete.
- ajax
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