Le Tuesday 15 July 2008 22:18:11 Hannu Savolainen, vous avez écrit : > > This license is the copyright's holder choice, but it clearly doesn't > > qualify as "free" for the debian project, hence would have to be placed > > in non-free or simply removed from the package... > > > > > > The extra "Any modifications ..." statement was a mistake. I have emoved > it from the hg version.
Great, thanks ! > >> The file srcconf.c has the following license: > >> > >> This software is released under CDDL 1.0 source license for > >> operating systems that have their full source code available under the > >> BSD or CDDL licenses. > >> > > > > I don't understand this sentence... > > > > And, some file don't have a license header, hence their license being the > > main COPYING claim from the tarball, but have warnings like this: > > > > I will take a look at this. Thanks > >> This source code, its compiled object code, and its associated data > >> sets are copyright (C) 1998-1998 ESS Technology, Inc. This source code > >> and its associated data sets are trade secrets of ESS Technology, Inc. > > > > This is of course sort of frightening, although I don't think it has a > > legal meaning -- or if so that it's not debian's fault but 4Front's .. :) > > > > There are some 3rd party drivers that have copyright statements of the > original author (the manufacturer of the sound card or chipset). We have > got their permission to redistribute the code. However we are not in > position to remove the original copyright statements. If this is a > problem then such drivers should be excluded from Debian. After all they > are drivers for old hardware that has been out of production for 5 to 10 > years. Well, as far as I understand it, the copyright stuff is not the problem, but the license is. By legal meaning I meant that as written, a "trade secret" isn't a license restriction, and probably doesn't mean anything related to the license. At least that's my understanding. Hence, the default license would be the one provided as the general COPYING, so the GPL version 2 only. I believe a simple "yes it is" is enough here :) Romain _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
