On Sat 13 Aug 2022 at 19:23:46 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 13/08/2022 18:30, Lee wrote: > > I just noticed that the netperf package is in the [non-free] repository > > https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/netperf > > which seems wrong. > > > > Is the MIT license really not compatible with open source or is the > > netperf package using outdated licensing info or .. what? > > Very interesting. I don't know about this specific package, but MIT in > general is allowed in DSFG. > > For example, this package is full MIT and its in Debian: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/kraptor > > netperf license, as seen on > https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/n/netperf/netperf_2.7.0-0.1_copyright, > still reads: > > Copyright (C) 1993 Hewlett-Packard Company > ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. > > It must have been recently this package changed from Copyright (C) 1993 > Hewlett-Packard Company to MIT license, and Debian didn't catched up to > this fact yet? > > Also their github README states: > "This version of netperf has been opensourced by Hewlett Packard > Enterprise using the MIT license." > And also > "Licenses updated." > > Maybe older versions indeed were not under MIT. > > EDIT: Ok I think I found it. > https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf/commit/2d88bcc75d97f462eafe8605f8da0c1f875b7dad > > It seems that this package license has changed from full HP copyright to > MIT, on 20 January 2021.
The version in bullseye looks as if it was built on 15 November 2020 … > Perhaps package needs updating in Debian repository :) … and has not yet needed upgrading for bookworm AFAICT (amd64). > > The debian package copyright file link points to > > > > https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/n/netperf/netperf_2.7.0-0.1_copyright > > which has > > Upstream Authors: > > Copyright 1993-2007 Hewlett-Packard Company > > > > but the homepage link points to > > https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf > > which has a COPYING file pointing to > > https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf/blob/master/COPYING > > which has > > HewlettPackard/netperf is licensed under the > > MIT License > > # Copyright 2021 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP Cheers, David.