Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 23-5-2012 22:24, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote: 23.05.2012 21:00, Leyne, Sean wrote: When ATT had resources which were developing Unix it might have been possible to reach out to them. But given that is no longer the case, I think it more likely that we could raise Dennis Ritchie from the

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Thu, 24 May 2012 08:39:55 +0200, Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl wrote: They also state that the entire package is covered by the license: http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download/ Under 'License' in the menu on the leftside. Mark

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem

2012-05-24 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:39:55AM +0200, Mark Rotteveel wrote: Before downloading you have to accept the EPL license. Now that package does contain a stdio.h (in src/lib/sfio/stdio_s) with the 'scary' license, but in my opinion that is overruled by the fact that the ATT website itself says

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem

2012-05-24 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Thu, 24 May 2012 10:36:51 +0200, Michal Kubecek m...@mk-sys.cz wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:39:55AM +0200, Mark Rotteveel wrote: Before downloading you have to accept the EPL license. Now that package does contain a stdio.h (in src/lib/sfio/stdio_s) with the 'scary' license, but in

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem - Email found in subject

2012-05-23 Thread Michal Kubecek
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:24:27PM -0400, Leyne, Sean wrote: while reviewing Firebird 2.5 packages for OpenSuSE Factory, our legal team noticed that copyright notice on top of extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h claims that it contains certain software code or other information proprietary to ATT

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem - Email found in subject

2012-05-23 Thread marius adrian popa
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Michal Kubecek m...@mk-sys.cz wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:24:27PM -0400, Leyne, Sean wrote: while reviewing Firebird 2.5 packages for OpenSuSE Factory, our legal team noticed that copyright notice on top of extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h claims that

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem - Email found in subject

2012-05-23 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote: I'm not sure it really is a problem but given the text on top of the file, I can't be sure it is OK either, especially when our legal team considers it to be bad enough to exclude it from OpenSuSE. This is why I wanted to

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem

2012-05-23 Thread Leyne, Sean
I wonder why you don't ask about whether distribution of this file is ok directly in ATT?.. When ATT had resources which were developing Unix it might have been possible to reach out to them. But given that is no longer the case, I think it more likely that we could raise Dennis

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem

2012-05-23 Thread Dimitry Sibiryakov
23.05.2012 21:00, Leyne, Sean wrote: When ATT had resources which were developing Unix it might have been possible to reach out to them. But given that is no longer the case, I think it more likely that we could raise Dennis Ritchie from the dead (Dennis Ritchie is father of C programming

[Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem

2012-05-22 Thread Michal Kubecek
Hello, while reviewing Firebird 2.5 packages for OpenSuSE Factory, our legal team noticed that copyright notice on top of extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h claims that it contains certain software code or other information proprietary to ATT Corp. As the file is apparently used only on Solaris (and

Re: [Firebird-devel] extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h license problem - Email found in subject

2012-05-22 Thread Leyne, Sean
Michael, while reviewing Firebird 2.5 packages for OpenSuSE Factory, our legal team noticed that copyright notice on top of extern/SfIO/include/stdio.h claims that it contains certain software code or other information proprietary to ATT Corp. What is the problem with the FB packages having