On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 14:57, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 01:43 PM 7/13/02 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: > >On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 06:53, Mike Noyes wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 22:55, George Georgalis wrote: > > > > Is Bering GNU? > > > > > > George, > > > Yes. > > > >Clarification: > >Bering is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and would > >be described by FSF people as GPL-covered software. It is not a GNU > >program, or GNU software. Bering has not been contributed to the FSF. > > Mike -- I stayed out of this morass up to now mainly because you and the > other LEAF folks have responded so well to it.
Ray, I'm starting to wish I had also. :-( > But your message above (and > some of the others, at least implicitly) reads to me like it is fuzzing up > one detail. > > Am I mistaken, or doesn't Bering (and Dachstein, and perhaps the other > variants) use some components with idiosyncratic licenses that don't meet > the standards (e.g, the DFSG or OSG criteria) for either free or Open > Source licensing ? I'm thinking in particular of the DJB stuff (dnscache, > tinydns) and one of the intrusion detection packages. I also recall that > there used to be issues with DoC module code, though I believe current DoC > support uses OSG-compliant licensing. Correct, but I thought we were discussing the code created by our project members, and not code packaged by us. I agree the DJB packages may have some problems, but I think we came to the conclusion earlier that this was a borderline case. The M-Systems DoC driver license was unacceptable, and was never distributed from our SF site. > As I recall -- though I am no more expert in reading and interpreting > licenses than any of us -- an overall distribution can be GPL'd but include > some components that themselves are under different licenses (not ANY other > license, but SOME other licenses). Does that distinction not apply to these > packages (and maybe others)? I believe that is the case. -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
