legal April 2010

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FPCA question about 4d waiver limitation
by Bruno Wolff III 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

I am wondering why the promise to waive or not assert 4d is only for the Fedora community? ... "along with a waiver of the right to enforce, and an agreement not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY-SA against the Fedora Community, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law." I would expect people downstream of Fedora to get the same rights as the Fedora Community?

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MS-PL and OSI
by Paul F. Johnson 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi, Just been checking on the OSI licences and it appears that both the MS-PL and MS-RL licences are now both approved by the OSI. From memory, until Mono had an OSI happy licence, it wasn't allowed in. As both MS-PL and MS-RL are OSI approved, does that mean that the likes of IronPython can be now included into the repos? TTFN Paul -- Biggles was quietly reading his favourite book when Algy burst through the door. Distracted for a moment, Biggles surveyed what had happened and turned a page. "Algy old man" he said, clearing his throat, "use the handle next time..." - Taken from "Biggles combs his Hair"

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Export page
by Paul W. Frields 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Hi Spot et al., I believe the Export page needs the addition of export control info for the F12 "Constantine" release in the table at the bottom of the page. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Export Thanks in advance. Paul

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University of Michigan license
by Chris St. Pierre 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

I'm looking at packaging CoSign (http://cosign.sourceforge.net/) for Fedora and EPEL. It's under a license that bears more than a passing resemblance to the NCSA/U-Illinois license: http://cosign.sourceforge.net/license.shtml Is this acceptable for Fedora? Thanks! -- Chris St. Pierre

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Licenses W3AF
by Michal Ambroz 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Dear list members, I would like to ask regarding licenses for the W3AF (webapplication audit tool) and its suitability for Fedora. I would like to package w3af for Fedora. this software is python application bundled with several 3rd party python libraries. It is possible to use system libraries for some of the dependencies, but for some of those it will not be trivial to separate them (that is probably reason why debian package bundles them as well). 1) How is it in such situation with compatibility betwen GPL LGPL other licenses if the software is distributed de-facto in a source form ? Is it problem to bundle libraries ? 2) How the license tag in the package should look like? Is something like this suitable for the situation ? License: GPLv2 and ( LGPLv3 and LGPLv2 and GPLv2+ and GPLv3 and CC-BY-SA ) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579428 Attached is the list of bundled libraries which I was able to identify in the upstream tarball. Thank you for advice. Michal Ambroz

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Re: [Fedora-legal-list] U.S. Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (46 SK) Corporate CLA
by Tom Callaway 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

On 04/02/2010 09:49 AM, Jennings, Jared L CTR USAF AFMC 46 SK/CCI wrote: > If I do, legally, what happens there? Is it that Mr. James tells me, internal to our organization, "On behalf of the Air Force, I grant you the right to license the Contributions you've made," and then I grant that right to the Fedora project via the Individual CLA? Yes, that should be sufficient. I would encourage you to retain documentation of that in the unlikely event of a dispute. :) ~tom

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Ordnance Survey license
by Richard W.M. Jones 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Regardless of arguments about whether or not map data belongs in Fedora, I wonder what we think of the new Ordnance Survey OpenData license? http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/docs/licence.pdf It seems to be Free (as in Freedom) to my untrained eyes. More about the map data release here: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/ They have a rather peculiar system for obtaining this data. If you are a UK citizen and resident, you can order (for free) a DVD containing the data you select, which will be sent by snail mail to your home. I ordered the street map DVD for my local area just to see what I'd get. [OT for Fedora] Hopefully if the license above is free, we can pool the data that people order together and make it available in some more direct way. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v

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U.S. Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (46 SK) Corporate CLA
by James, William G Mr CIV USAF AFMC 46 SK/CCI 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Please find attached a signed copy of the Fedora Project Corporate Contributor License Agreement for the U.S. Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (46 SK). William G. James, Jr. 205 West D. Ave Building 350 Room 347 Eglin AFB FL 32542 (850)882-0966 DSN 872-0966 email: william.james(a)eglin.af.mil

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