legal June 2024

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Sleepycat license with SaaS restriction
by Florian Weimer 08 Jul '25

08 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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Request to stop hobbling crypto libraries
by Neal Gompa 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Hey all, As part of the discussion going on about Mesa on devel@, the situation around OpenSSL was brought up, and Adam Williamson brought up that we might not need to hobble OpenSSL anymore[1]. A quick check seems to indicate we no longer do it for GnuTLS either, and haven't for many years[2]. Could we just drop all this stuff and use pristine OpenSSL sources? All the crypto algorithm usability stuff is controlled through crypto-policies, so I don't think it makes sense to do this anymore for OpenSSL since all the patents indicated in the script have expired for a couple of years now[3]. Dropping this will eliminate a chunk of cruft that nobody needs around anymore and simplify OpenSSL maintenance. [1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org… [2]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnutls/c/46d865d8451be0f4576dcc56841175a… [3]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl//blob/rawhide/f/hobble-openssl -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

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Re: [SPDX] Mass license change GPLv2 to GPL-2.0-only
by Miro Hrončok 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

On 18. 06. 24 18:46, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > Hi. > > I am going to do the mass change of the license from GPLv2 to GPL-2.0-only Hi. How do you know the License tag is not supposed to be e.g. "GPL-2.0-only AND MIT" or similar? Converting "GPLv2" (which could mean any number of "weaker" licenses are hidden under the "stronger" GPL in the old notation) to "GPL-2.0-only" (which means all the code is exactly GPL 2.0 only) cannot be done automatically. Same for the other thread about LGPLv3 to LGPL-3.0-only conversion. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 Fedora Matrix: mhroncok

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