On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
Jakob Bohm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (quoting the Sun RPC license):
but are not authorized to license or
distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
program developed by the user.
I
Jakob Bohm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (quoting the Sun RPC license):
but are not authorized to license or
distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
program developed by the user.
I interpret that to mean that once the RPC code has
IANAL, TINLA, IANADD
But here is my blow by blow interpretation, which makes glibc DFSG free.
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:39:47AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
Copyright (C) 1984, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun RPC is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:10:35PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:26, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 17:03, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:51AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:05:57PM -0400, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
Sun has repeatedly clarified elsewhere that the intent of this is
essentially MIT/X11, except you may not distribute this product
alone.
Got any citations?
The license certainly
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 17:03, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:51AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
We also have essentially the same license with ttf-bitstream-vera.
IMO, that isn't Free Software, either.
There are no practical restrictions on its freedom; I fail to see how
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:26, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:03:13AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 17:03, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:51AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
We also have essentially the same license with
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:39:51AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
We also have essentially the same license with ttf-bitstream-vera.
IMO, that isn't Free Software, either.
--
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:05:57PM -0400, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
Sun has repeatedly clarified elsewhere that the intent of this is
essentially MIT/X11, except you may not distribute this product
alone.
Got any citations?
The license certainly doesn't *read* like MIT/X11, except you may not
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 17:28, Branden Robinson wrote:
Users may copy or modify Sun RPC
without charge, but are not authorized to license or
distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
program developed by the
reopen 181493 !
thanks
For the debian-legal people, this is the controversy at hand:
Sun RPC code is included as part of glibc. The license, which is
included below, prohibits distribution of the original code under its
original terms, which would make the license non-free. Including
non-free
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:39:47AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
Sun RPC is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is
provided for unrestricted use provided that this legend is
included on all tape media and as a part of the software
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:39:47AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
Sun RPC is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is
provided for unrestricted use provided that this legend is
included on all tape media and as a part
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
Copyright (C) 1984, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Users may copy or modify Sun RPC without charge, but are
not authorized to license or distribute it to anyone else
except as part of a product or program
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:05:57PM -0400, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
Has anybody asked Sun for a clarification of the license, or tried to
obtain the code under a different license? Or maybe the FSF has
obtained a suitable license and just forgot to update the copyright
notice?
Sun has
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:05:57PM -0400, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
Sun has repeatedly clarified elsewhere that the intent of this is
essentially MIT/X11, except you may not distribute this product
alone.
That cuts out everything but the GPL/LGPL incompatibility problem,
which remains a sticking
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:39:47AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
Copyright (C) 1984, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun RPC is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is
provided for unrestricted use provided that this legend is
included on all tape media
Scripsit Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copyright (C) 1984, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Users may copy or modify Sun RPC without charge, but are
not authorized to license or distribute it to anyone else
except as part of a product or program developed by
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copyright (C) 1984, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Users may copy or modify Sun RPC without charge, but are
not authorized to license or distribute it to anyone else
except as
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