It sounds like Ecma is licensing its own code, but not anything from third parties (is there any third party code in the package?) including third party patents (you wouldn't expect that to be licensed)... Including members of Ecma.
>From a quick glance at their website, they're a trade association with big and small members, and I'm guessing one of those members was worried its patents would be implicated by the open source license, so they added that text. So as long as there's no third party code in the package, and you're not aware of any implicated patents, this *should* be fine. Regards, Daniel J. Hakimi B.S. Philosophy, RPI 2012 B.S. Computer Science, RPI 2012 J.D. Cardozo Law 2015 On Tue, Dec 9, 2025, 17:41 Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I came across what follows. > It's not clear to me how the concatenation of that text + BSD-3-clause > gives a whole that isn't DFSG. > > The Source Map Tests suite ("Software") is protected by copyright and is > being made available under the "BSD License", included below. This > Software may be subject to third party rights (rights from parties other > than Ecma International), including patent rights, and no licenses under > such third party rights are granted under this license even if the third > party concerned is a member of Ecma International. SEE THE ECMA CODE OF > CONDUCT IN PATENT MATTERS AVAILABLE AT > https://www.ecma-international.org/ipr FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE > LICENSING OF PATENT CLAIMS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT ECMA > INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS*. > > Copyright (c) 2024, Ecma International > All rights reserved. > > (here follows a standard BSD-3-clause license follows). > > Without better advice, I will "dfsg-exclude" the files. > > Jérémy > >
