Eric and Dan, couldn't you look at the issue below?
Dimitry -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [freemind - Complaints from users] Licensing problems Datum: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:49:06 -0800 Von: SourceForge.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4723786 By: alec-leamas I've initiated a work to include freemind in Fedora. This process ha revealed that although the bulk of the freemind sw is covered by the GPL v2 license (with an option to use a later version), some parts are covered by the Mozilla Public License 1.1. According the Fedora legal specialists, these licenses are simply not compatible. I'm definitely not a lawyer, but as I understand it these issues affects the inclusion of freemind into any open source distribution. It definitely blocks the inclusion of freemind in Fedora, which is a Bad Thing. The offending files lives in the accessories directory: marktree.js, mm2oowriter.xsl, tohtml.xsl, toxhtml.xsl. Also plugins/latex hace the same license problem. See links below for details. Don't know what to do really. I guess one option might be to contact the original author to see if he might dual license the problematic files. Another option might be to exclude certain pieces from the main package. This issue is new to me, but others must have met it before. Frankly, I'm stuck. Don't know what to do to make this fine piece of sw fully available to the open source community --alec Links: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428413 (details on problem) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing (license compatibility overview) ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=320014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freemind-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer
