I am not sure if Toby's reply made it to the list. > Gesendet: Freitag, 03. Februar 2023 um 15:24 Uhr > Von: "Tobias Frost" <t...@debian.org> > An: 1030...@bugs.debian.org > Betreff: [Emc-developers] Bug#1030304: Licensing & copyright issues > > Control: severity -1 normal > > On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 12:10:52 +0100 Adam Ant <adam...@engineer.com> wrote: > > Source: linuxcnc > > Severity: serious > > (Standard disclaimer: IANAL.) > > > Source files for libnml lack standard Debian or SPDX copyright headers. > > This is nice to have, but it is not a requirement. > > Also obsolete version of LGPL used. > > Where is this a problem? All LGPL variants a DFSG approved. The license is > upstream's *choice*, > > > > > Source files for both the core linuxcnc & libmnl are forked and munged from > > a NIST project known as the Enhanced Machine Control (EMC). The source code > > for this is public domain. One can NOT take PD > code, claim copyright, and then slap an arbitrary license on it. > > > > At best, renders the license unenforceable in many jurisdictions, or > > illegal in some. > > Public Domain is an accepted as DFSG compatible. As the DFSG-FAQ §15 says: > "Software placed in the public domain has all the freedoms required by the > DFSG, and is free software." > > Where would be distributing PD illegal? > > > > Kindly refer to Debian Legal > > This be https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2022/12/msg00000.html ? > > You've got an answer from Andrew actually. (which you should have considered > as input, when filing this bug. > In fact, you just filed this bug as if the reponse never happened. That > raises some concerns on your behaviour.) > > Let me quote the relevant part for the bug: > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2022/12/msg00001.html) > > > By the same token, anyone rewriting/modifying that code also has copyright. > > The author of code can apply any license they like (and can distribute the > > code themselves with no licence or a licence that means that no-one else > > could ever distribute it because of a conflict of licences). > > And according to a comment in d/copyright, this is exactly what happened. > > (As Andy pointed out, this is not legal advice. Read the whole thread) > > I don't see a (RC) bug for Debian here, sorry. > Downgrading it, I'll leave it up to the maintainers to close it, so that they > can also double > check whether I've missed something when looking at this bug) > > -- > tobi > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers >
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