Ocaml documentation license
by Florian Weimer
Should Fedora distribute content under the Ocaml documentation license?
The license says:
“
The present documentation is copyright © 2013 Institut National de
Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The OCaml
documentation and user’s manual may be reproduced and distributed in
whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:
• The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be
preserved complete on all complete or partial copies.
• Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml documentation and
user’s manual must be approved by the authors in writing before
distribution.
• If you distribute the OCaml documentation and user’s manual in
part, instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual
must be included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided.
• Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or
quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation
is given.
”
For program source code, this would clearly not be allowed because
derivative works are not permitted. Are such restrictions permitted for
documentation licenses in Fedora?
Thanks,
Florian
3 years, 11 months
Relicensing Cura to LGPLv3+ (but is still uses AGPLv3+ and GPLv3)
by Miro Hrončok
Hi there,
recently, Cura, a 3D printing software by Ultimaker and its community
have been relicensed from AGPLv3+ to LGPLv3+ [0][1].
When updating Cura in Fedora, I forgot to check, and it's still listed
as AGPLv3+. However, I'm not sure whether I can change the tag to
LGPLv3+, because it uses other software with "stronger" licenses.
In fact, there seem to be a problem already with Uranium (python-uranium
SRPM).
Cura uses CuraEngine (AGPLv3+) trough a protobuf interface [2].
I'm unsure whether a protobuf interface makes the AGPLv3+ "infect" Cura.
I'd guess it does.
Cura uses (Python imports) Uranium (currently also listed as LGPLv3+ in
Fedora) that imports PyQt5 (GPLv3).
I'm confident that PyQt5's GPLv3 "infects" both Uranium and Cura to be
GPLv3. It's the PyQt5's authors business model [3].
So I guess Uranium should be GPLv3 and Cura should be either GPLv3 or
AGPLv3 (no +) depending on the protobuf thing.
I wonder if what Ultimaker is doing is even possible, and whether I
should ask them about it, but before I do, I'll ask here.
BTW Our python-qt5 package (PyQt5 upstream) is listed in Fedora as "BSD
and GPLv2+" which I'm confident is not true and I opened [4] while
investigating this.
Thanks for help.
[0]
https://ultimaker.com/en/community/50303-cura-license-update-from-agpl-to...
[1]
https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/commit/9a193ad5c5ab5324ad1335dd9adf80fe...
[2]
https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/blob/master/plugins/CuraEngineBackend/C...
[3] https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/commercial/license-faq
[4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520186
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3 years, 12 months
