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
3 months
License for NIST datasets
by Davide Cavalca
Hello!
I'm packaging rust-statrs in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1993498 and while reviewing
it Fabio (in CC) noticed it includes some NIST datasets under data/nist
that don't seem to have a clear attribution. You can see them here:
https://github.com/statrs-dev/statrs/tree/master/data/nist
After some spelunking, I found these come from one of the NIST SRD
datasets: https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/univ/backgroundinfo.html
That page doesn't have a clear license either, but more spelunking
reveals
https://www.nist.gov/open/copyright-fair-use-and-licensing-statements-srd...
which is getting closer. Specifically, I'm pretty sure these fall under
the "Standard Reference Data (SRD)" license stated there, which says:
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The Standard Reference Data Act, 15 U.S.C. § 290e, empowers the
Secretary of Commerce to secure copyright on behalf of the United
States in Standard Reference Data (SRD) prepared by NIST. SRD data
products should include the following statement:
Copyright protection on this compilation of data has been secured by
the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce on behalf of the
United States in the United States and all countries that are parties
to the Universal Copyright Convention, pursuant to Section 290(e) of
Title 15 of the United States Code.
NIST Standard Reference Data (SRD);
©Copyright [©YEAR] by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the
United States of America. All rights reserved.
---
To my untrained eye, this looks like a fairly standard copyright
attribution thing and should be ok to redistribute and package in
Fedora, but I'd like an official blessing as I don't see this license
listed on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main . Thanks!
Cheers
Davide
1 year, 9 months
Acceptability of a documentation license
by Jeffrey H. Johnson
Greetings,
As suggested on the Fedora wiki, I'm contacting the list to inquire
regarding the acceptability of the following proposed documentation
license, as I'd like to ensure that it will become be an impediment
to having documentation included in Fedora (or using Fedora Copr).
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THE DPS8M DOCUMENTATION LICENSE
Version 0.9, 29 August 2021
Copyright © 2019‑2021 The DPS8M Development Team
All Rights Reserved.
This documentation was produced by The DPS8M Development Team and other
contributors. Any views or conclusions contained in this documentation
are those of the authors, and must not be interpreted as representing
official policies, either express or implied, of The DPS8M Development
Team.
Redistribution and use in ‘source’ (including, but not limited to, TeX,
LaTeX, SGML DocBook, reStructuredText, Markdown, RUNOFF, Lout, etc.)
and ‘compiled’ forms (including, but not limited to, transformations to
other DTDs, conversions to SGML, XHTML, PDF, DjVu, XPS, PostScript, RTF,
or other formats, etc.), in whole or in part, for any purpose, including
commercial applications, with or without modification, in any medium, is
hereby permitted, without fee or royalty, provided that the following
conditions are met:
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list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.
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Thank you,
--
Jeffrey H. Johnson
trnsz(a)pobox.com
1 year, 9 months
