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
8 months, 4 weeks
Volatility Software License
by Miro Hrončok
Is this OK for inclusion in Fedora?
https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
Volatility Software License
Version 1.0 dated October 3, 2019.
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3 years, 9 months
swap-ware
by Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
Dear list,
here's another bundled component of AGS[1], libcda, which contains
code from BCD, which is licensed under what it calls "swap-ware"
license[3]:
===
Licensing:
BCD, like Allegro (a graphics & sound library), is swap-ware:
"You may use, modify, redistribute, and generally hack it about in any way
you like, but if you do you must send me something in exchange. This could
be a complimentary copy of a game, an addition or improvement to BCD,
a bug report, some money (this is particularly encouraged if you use
BCD in a commercial product), or just a copy of your AUTOEXEC.BAT if you
don't have anything better. If you redistribute BCD or make a game using
it, it would be nice if you mentioned me somewhere in the credits."
I hope Shawn Hargreaves doesn't mind me pinching his licensing statement,
but I like the idea of swapware and hope it spreads.
So, BCD is free for use, but if you do something
with it, cool or dumb, I would like credit and I would definitely
want to hear about what you're doing with it. I also encourage you to
send me a copy of what you're up to. You should always be able to find
my web pages via http://brennan.home.ml.org/ and I've got all kinds of
game programming info under http://brennan.home.ml.org/djgpp/
Check it out!
===
I noticed that Allegro license[3] is actually giftware, not swap-ware.
Fortunately, the two files (djgpp.c and bcd.doc) are not compiled or
used in any way on Linux, so at worst, I could just remove them from
distributed tarball. However, it'd be more convenient to ship upstream
source tarball directly. Is this OK to include in Fedora?
Regards,
Dominik
[1] http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/ags/ https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/
[2] https://github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags/blob/master/Engine/libsrc/libc...
[3] https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/blob/4.4.3/docs/src/readme._tx#L198
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