Re: advice on non-free NXP Software License Agreement

2023-06-22 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Johannes" == Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: >> In such situations we have sometimes had success reaching out to >> companies and negotiating something. Johannes> Who is usually doing this reaching out? Individual DDs Johannes> like myself or official

Re: advice on non-free NXP Software License Agreement

2023-06-22 Thread Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
Hi, Quoting Sam Hartman (2023-06-22 16:46:51) > > "Johannes" == Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues > > writes: > > Johannes> Dear Debian legal, I seek advice on the NXP Software > Johannes> License Agreement and whether binaries licensed under it > Johannes> are

Re: Expat license and "free for academic users"

2023-06-22 Thread Andrius Merkys
Hi all, Thank you for your prompt responses. On 2023-06-22 17:49, Sam Hartman wrote: I mean under xpat, it's certainly free for academic users, and it's also free for everyone else. Unless that statement in the readme is in a section called license or otherwise claims to be a license, I'd

Re: Expat license and "free for academic users"

2023-06-22 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andrius" == Andrius Merkys writes: Andrius> Hello, [Please keep me in CC, I am not subscribed] Andrius> I encountered a package EvoEF2 [1] which is licensed under Andrius> Expat and has the following in its README.md: Andrius> "EvoEF2 is free to academic users."

Re: advice on non-free NXP Software License Agreement

2023-06-22 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Johannes" == Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues writes: Johannes> Dear Debian legal, I seek advice on the NXP Software Johannes> License Agreement and whether binaries licensed under it Johannes> are redistributable in non-free(-firmware) or not. The Johannes> full text is

mini-httpd NCSA license concerns

2023-06-22 Thread Alexandru Mihail
Dear debian-legal, As part of an adoption request , I've been fixing mini-httpd with the help of my mentor (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1036751) mini-httpd contains portions of code commited by Rob McCool which seem to originate from NCSA httpd (likely 1.15). Rob's