On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 12:11:38PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > One of the last stumbling blocks is that it includes a copy of the > "dlmalloc" code under the CC0 license, which is now a forbidden > code license for packages being newly added to Fedora. > > The authors of sgx-sdk have contacted the original author of > dlmalloc, and he apparently suggested that since CC0 is a public > domain license, they can just add a second license header of their > choosing to the source files and Fedora can then ignore the orignial > CC0 license.
To close the loop on this, after a little more email discussion with Doug Lee, he graciously agreed to replace the CC0 license with MIT-0 as seen here, so there should no longer be any license problem for projects bundling dlmalloc in Fedora: https://gee.cs.oswego.edu/pub/misc/malloc.c [quote] * Version 2.8.6 Wed Aug 29 06:57:58 2012 Doug Lea Re-licensed 25 Sep 2023 with MIT-0 replacing obsolete CC0 See https://opensource.org/license/mit-0/ [/quote] With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ 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
