On 02/27/2018 04:23 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Richard Fontana
<rfontana(a)redhat.com
<mailto:rfontana@redhat.com>> wrote:
That is possibly the worst-written license I have seen in quite some
time, but I actually think it is acceptable for Fedora for the reasons
Tom and Eric gave.
Thanks Richard and Tom! What should I use for the License tag in the RPM?
Use:
License: CPM
I've sent email to Bryan Sparks asking whether he is still in a
position
of authority to deal with CP/M licensing, and if so, whether he might
grant a license under a common open source license; I suggested possibly
BSD 2-clause. However, I have no idea whether the email address I found
for him will actually work.
Oh man, that will be a fun one. It seems that Lineo was the last known
owner of the CP/M copyright (Digital Research -> Novell -> Caldera ->
Lineo), but Lineo was carved up and its assets went all over the place.
I _think_ the most likely place is with DrDOS Inc. (formerly
DeviceLogics), where Bryan Sparks is the current CEO (afaik).
http://drdos.com/company/namagement/
In the mean time, I'm intending to package "z80pack"
for Fedora. That
includes emulation of various 8080 and Z80 systems. There are various
disk images included. I'll put the CP/M images in a subpackage. I think
there may be licensing issues with some of the other disk images, so I
may have to produce a cleaned source tarball that omits those.
Yeah, be careful, but that sounds right.
~tom