Re: RFC: licensing issue with lft | |
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On 8/24/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 22:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > >>>>>> "JLT" == Jason L Tibbitts <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > JLT> but also the license (the "VOSTROM Public License") is strange > > > JLT> and had never been officially checked for acceptability in > > > JLT> Fedora. > > > > > > In case anyone wants to see the license, it't actually not on the > > > upstream website but I've extracted it from the tarball: > > > http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/vostrom-license.txt > > > > What do you think is strange about this license? Looks permissive to me. > > Clauses 5 and 7 are problematic. It's been at the FSF for a while now, > they're backlogged from us and IcedTea. > I would vote pull from rawhide or revert to 'ok version' until settled. The functionality looks to be covered by the default tcptraceroute (which wasnt available) -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
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