* Richard Fontana:

Is anyone aware of any Fedora package where there is a (disjunctive) dual license, where one side of the dual license is a not-allowed ('bad') license, *not* involving the familiar GPL/Artistic dual license of the Perl community? By this I don't mean what's in the license tag but the actual license granted upstream.

Do parts of ghostscript qualify? For example, contrib/gdevdj9.c:

| /* | Copyright (C) 2000 <Rene Harsch, Switzerland> | written by <Rene Harsch rene@harsch.net> | modification by Mark Burton markb@ordern.com | | Portions Copyright (C) 1999 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved. | | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | (at your option) any later version. | | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | GNU General Public License for more details. | | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | along with this program; if not, write to: | | Free Software Foundation, Inc., | 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor | Boston, MA 02110-1301 | USA | | This program may also be distributed as part of Aladdin Ghostscript, | under the terms of the Aladdin Free Public License (the "License"). | | Every copy of Aladdin Ghostscript must include a copy of the | License, normally in a plain ASCII text file named PUBLIC. The | License grants you the right to copy, modify and redistribute | Aladdin Ghostscript, but only under certain conditions described in | the License. Among other things, the License requires that the | copyright notice and this notice be preserved on all copies. | */

dcmtk also has a complicated licensing situation. The COPYRIGHT file says this in part:

| The files ofstd/include/dcmtk/ofstd/ofxml.h and ofstd/libsrc/ofxml.cc are | derived from the XMLparser library, which is covered by the following | copyright: | | /* | * Copyright (c) 2002, Frank Vanden Berghen | * All rights reserved. | * | * The following license terms apply to projects that are in some way related to | * the "DCMTK project", including applications | * using "DCMTK project" and tools developed | * for enhancing "DCMTK project". All other projects | * (not related to "DCMTK project") have to use this | * code under the Aladdin Free Public License (AFPL) | * See the file "AFPL-license.txt" for more informations about the AFPL license. | * (see http://www.artifex.com/downloads/doc/Public.htm for detailed AFPL terms) | * | * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without | * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: | * * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright | * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. | * * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright | * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the | * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. | * * Neither the name of Frank Vanden Berghen nor the | * names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products | * derived from this software without specific prior written permission. | * | * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Frank Vanden Berghen ``AS IS'' AND ANY | * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED | * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE | * DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL <copyright holder> BE LIABLE FOR ANY | * DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES | * (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; | * LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND | * ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT | * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS | * SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. | */

But that isn't really dual-licensed under a bad license, it is licensed under a bad license?! (I think this is a bit of a problem with this sort of question, it leads us to realize that things are packaged in Fedora which shouldn't.)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Bad_Licenses has this piece of information:

| Please note that while the "gSOAP Public License" is non-free, the | "gSOAP Toolkit" is dual licensed as GPLv2 or gSOAP Public License.

I quite don't see what makes gSOAP's license.pdf non-free, although it seems to rule out private source/binary distribution.

Thanks, Florian