LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-09 Thread Tony Mancill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Debian Legal experts: We are trying to determine the licensing status of a new package, libjxp-java, for which most of the source is licensed under the LGPL, but includes 2 (modified) files for which the original license is the Sun Public

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-09 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:27:27 -0700 Tony Mancill wrote: [...] We are trying to determine the licensing status of a new package, libjxp-java, for which most of the source is licensed under the LGPL, but includes 2 (modified) files for which the original license is the Sun Public License 1.0.

Re: RFS: ognl

2009-08-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun Aug 09 23:02, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: I've reviewed the package and it looks clean, but I have one question. Which bit is licenced under the apache-derived licence? I can only find BSD-licenced files. OpenSymfony Licence (Apache derived one) is promoted by upstream as official

Re: RFS: ognl

2009-08-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthew Johnson mj...@debian.org writes: I don't like: * 5. Products derived from this software may not be called * OpenSymphony *or OGNL, nor may OpenSymphony or OGNL appear in their *name, without prior written permission of the OpenSymphony *Group. since we are, arguably,

Re: RFS: ognl

2009-08-09 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Le dimanche 09 août 2009 23:53:41, Matthew Johnson a écrit : On Sun Aug 09 23:02, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: I've reviewed the package and it looks clean, but I have one question. Which bit is licenced under the apache-derived licence? I can only find BSD-licenced files. OpenSymfony

Re: LGPL code that includes files licensed under Sun Public License 1.0 - DFSG-free?

2009-08-09 Thread tony mancill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Francesco, Thank you for your response. It's interesting to note that this Wikipedia article states that the SPL has been approved by the [FSF] but completely fails to mention the incompatibility with the GPL.