Happy New Year, everyone! Among the various packages I maintain is one called x11-ssh-askpass. The project itself is old but still runs and there are users. I am trying to generate an SPDX license expression for this package and am asking for help for clarification.
x11-ssh-askpass uses code from xscreensaver (jwz.org/xscreensaver). In the Fedora package for xscreensaver we call it MIT licensed. The xscreensaver project provides sample spec file to build and RPM and in that spec file they call themselves BSD licensed. However, I see this at least in xscreensaver.c: /* xscreensaver, Copyright © 1991-2022 Jamie Zawinski <[email protected]> * * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that * the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting * documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this * software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or * implied warranty. * Would we call this MIT? It begins mostly the same way but reduces the as-is paragraph to I guess the last two sentences. Or would this be more ISC or even HPND? ISC doesn't feel right but also feels less wrong somehow to me. HPND....??? With the xscreensaver license sorted out, that leaves the remaining original code in x11-ssh-askpass which carries this license: The remaining portions fall under the following copyright and license: by Jim Knoble <[email protected]> Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001 Jim Knoble Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. +------------+ | Disclaimer | +------------+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the author(s) be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software. Again....MIT, ISC, HPND, something else? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, -- David Cantrell <[email protected]> Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
