legal February 2020

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Sleepycat license with SaaS restriction
by Florian Weimer 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

cryptlib is licensed under the Sleepycat license with a SaaS restriction: “Note that decoupling the software from the user, for example by running in a SaaS configuration, does not exempt you from these requirements.” (Full text attached.) This was not part of the original Sleepycat license, so a new license tag is required. Maybe this license is not even free; this additional clause seems to be a restriction on use. But perhaps it is not so different from the AGPL. Thanks, Florian

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Henry Spencer's license
by Petr Šabata 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

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

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about openssl we may enable and build all elliptic curves on corp ?
by Sérgio Basto 06 Nov '22

06 Nov '22

Hello, I reopen or start thinking again on this question of enable elliptic curves of openssl [1] So going directly to the point, may I built all source of openssl in copr [2] ? or at least some other curves that fedora package don't ship? [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1405843 [2] Version: 1.0.2k %global fips_version 2.0.14 I mean sources: http://ftp.o penssl.org/source/openssl-%{version}.tar.gz and http://ftp.openssl.org/s ource/openssl-fips-%{fips_version}.tar.gz Thanks , -- Sérgio M. B.

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fedoraproject.org in XML namespace name
by Zdenek Veleba 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Hello, My team would like to open-source our testing tool for Anaconda. Currently it’s using our custom XML namespace with Red Hat URI. We think it would be best to change it to fedoraproject.org. Is there some kind of process for reserving/registering it for our tool? Or are we free coming up with some URI like: "http://fedoraproject.org/anaconda-testing/tool-name/recipe" and using that as our namespace? Thank you. -- Zdenek Veleba Quality Engineer Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com> Location: RH - Brno - TPB-C - 1C373 <https://red.ht/sig>

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Volatility Software License
by Miro Hrončok 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

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. This license covers the Volatility software, Copyright 2019 Volatility Foundation. Software The software referred to in this license includes the software named above, and any data (such as operating system profiles or configuration information), and documentation provided with the software. Purpose This license gives you permission to use, share, and build with this software for free, but requires you to share source code for changes, additions, and software that you build with it. Acceptance In order to receive this license, you must agree to its rules. The rules of this license are both obligations under that agreement and conditions to your license. You must not do anything with this software that triggers a rule that you cannot or will not follow. Copyright Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe that contributor's copyright in it. Notices You must ensure that everyone who gets a copy of any part of this software from you, with or without changes, also gets the text of this license or a link to https://www.volatilityfoundation.org/license/vsl-v1.0. You must not remove any copyright notice in the Software. Patent Each contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe any patent claims they can license or become able to license. Reliability No contributor can revoke this license. Copyleft If you make any Additions available to others, such as by providing copies of them or providing access to them over the Internet, you must make them publicly available, according to this paragraph. "Additions" includes changes or additions to the software, and any content or materials, including any training materials, you create that contain any portion of the software. "Additions" also includes any translations or ports of the software. "Additions" also includes any software designed to execute the software and parse its results, such as a wrapper written for the software, but does not include shell or execution menu software designed to execute software generally. When this license requires you to make Additions available: - You must publish all source code for software under this license, in the preferred form for making changes, through a freely accessible distribution system widely used for similar source code, so the developer and others can find and copy it. - You must publish all data or content under this license, in a format customarily used to make changes to it, through a freely accessible distribution system, so the developer and others can find and copy it. - You are responsible to ensure you have rights in Additions necessary to comply with this section. Contributing If you contribute (or offer to contribute) any materials to Volatility Foundation for the software, such as by submitting a pull request to the repository for the software or related content run by Volatility Foundation, you agree to contribute them under the under the BSD 2-Clause Plus Patent License (in the case of software) or the Creative Commons Zero Public Domain Dedication (in the case of content), unless you clearly mark them "Not a Contribution." Trademarks This license grants you no rights to any trademarks or service marks. Termination If you violate any term of this license, your license ends immediately. No Liability As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and no contributor will be liable to anyone for any damages related to this software or this license, under any kind of legal claim. Versions Volatility Foundation is the steward of this license and may publish new versions of this license with new version numbers. You may use the software under the version of this license under which you received the software, or, at your choice, any later version. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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erlang-jose license change
by Randy Barlow 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

erlang-jose has changed licenses from MPLv2.0 to MIT. https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/erlang-jose/c/cb981bf5

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How to write License field for packages bundling mutliple others
by Igor Gnatenko 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

In Rust world we package all crates as source code in -devel packages. Then we use them to build the real applications. Some time ago, someone noticed that we don't put licenses of those -devel packages into a resulting RPM with app which is fair. However, I'm not entirely sure how to properly write the License tag. What should be there if -devel packages have: * ASL 2.0 * ASL 2.0 or Boost * ASL 2.0 or MIT * ISC * MIT * (MIT or ASL 2.0) and BSD * Unlicense or MIT Is it correct to put License: ISC and MIT and ASL 2.0 and BSD?

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