2010/11/22 Zhu, Peter J <[email protected]>:
> Hi
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carsten Munk
>> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 3:42 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [meego-packaging] Licensing on spec files
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed we're getting more and more packages that has closed
>> source licenses on the packaging itself. This is problematic as
>> technically, we don't have rights to build those packages within MeeGo
>> and probably even publish the source rpms on repo.meego.com and others
>> to mirror our repos.
>>
> Give an example
As an example of recently submitted packages (but not accepted) - if
you read this license in the top of the spec file(s), it is clearly
not open source.
The content of the spec file, gst-plugins-va.spec:
===================================================================
# Copyright 2010 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved.
# The source code contained or described herein and all documents
related to the source code ("Material") are owned by Intel Corporation
or its suppliers or licensors. Title to the Material remains with
Intel Corporation or its suppliers and licensors. The Material
contains trade secrets and proprietary and confidential information of
Intel or its suppliers and licensors. The Material is protected by
worldwide copyright and trade secret laws and treaty provisions. No
part of the Material may be used, copied, reproduced, modified,
published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed, or disclosed in
any way without Intel’s prior express written permission.
#
# No license under any patent, copyright, trade secret or other
intellectual property right is granted to or conferred upon you by
disclosure or delivery of the Materials, either expressly, by
implication, inducement, estoppel or otherwise. Any license under such
intellectual property rights must be express and approved by Intel in
writing.
Summary: GStreamer VA Plugin
Name: gst-plugins-va
Version: 0.10.5
Release: 1
Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
License: LGPL v2.0
Group: System Environment/Libraries
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
ExclusiveArch: %{ix86}
as well as:
The content of the spec file, mixvideo.spec:
===================================================================
# INTEL CONFIDENTIAL
# Copyright 2009 Intel Corporation All Rights Reserved.
# The source code contained or described herein and all documents
related to the source code ("Material") are owned by Intel Corporation
or its suppliers or licensors. Title to the Material remains with
Intel Corporation or its suppliers and licensors. The Material
contains trade secrets and proprietary and confidential information of
Intel or its suppliers and licensors. The Material is protected by
worldwide copyright and trade secret laws and treaty provisions. No
part of the Material may be used, copied, reproduced, modified,
published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, distributed, or disclosed in
any way without Intel’s prior express written permission.
#
# No license under any patent, copyright, trade secret or other
intellectual property right is granted to or conferred upon you by
disclosure or delivery of the Materials, either expressly, by
implication, inducement, estoppel or otherwise. Any license under such
intellectual property rights must be express and approved by Intel in
writing.
Summary: MIX Video
Name: mixvideo
Version: 0.1.24
>
>> I don't know what the policy should be - frankly, I'd either prefer
>> 'no license' like most of our spec files, or a general statement that
>> our packaging (not content) is open source.
>>
> What do you mean by "no license"?
Right now our spec files are quite plain, with no license header in
the top, like in:
#specfile originally created for Fedora, modified for Moblin Linux
Summary: Access control list utilities
Name: acl
Version: 2.2.49
Release: 1
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
BuildRequires: libattr-devel >= 2.4.1
BuildRequires: autoconf, libtool >= 1.5, gettext, gawk
Source:
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/acl/acl-%{version}.src.tar.gz
Patch0: acl-2.2.49-multilib.patch
Patch1: acl-2.2.49-build.patch
Patch6: acl-2.2.49-CVE-2009-4411.patch
License: GPLv2
Group: System/Base
URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
>> Could distribution engineers/architects elaborate on this topic and
>> set forth a policy?
Given that some of our specs are big enough to be actually
copyrightable, they should really contain a license header stating the
license and copyright owner.. The principle is usually that by
default, you do not have a license for a copyrighted work, it is
granted to you through a license (like BSD licensing, GPL, or what's
above as a Intel closed source license).
>>
>> BR
>> Carsten Munk
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