Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:41:24AM -0500, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > | What is needed here is a license exemption from the freeswan copyright > | holders, granting permission to distribute binaries linked against > | libdes. > Is this enough ? Because of the advertising clause, would Debian be > forced to include such an advertisment in any release document ? The exact terms of the license state: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by Eric Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Therefore, any advertising materials mentioning *freeswan* must display the acknowledgement. If (and only if) we mention the freeswan package in our release document are we required to include this acknowledgement. (We may be required to display an equivalent acknowledgement if we mention other packages.) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpHxm0BaYf6O.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: licence problem with ADSL modem drivers.
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, ... > > I was thinking about doing a package for the Bewan ADSL PCI st modem, > but have some questions relating to the licence problems, and to how > (and if) we can distribute this package. > > Bewan (www.bewan.com or www.bewan.fr) does distribute linux drivers in > source format, but without any kind of licence agreement, so i contacted > them, and after discution with them, i found out the following : > > The modem is a kind of 'software' modem, having some part physical, > and some part done by software. The driver is composed of linux code > written by Bewan, and a binary only library whose licencing they do > not control, and for which STmicroelectronics does not release > sources. They are willing to rebuild for other arches than just ia32 > though. This may well change in the future though, but for now it is > like that. This sounds like the body of Bewan's code + STmicroelectronics code is just a driver, just like NVidia graphics card drivers. Assuming it is really just a driver, then Bewan can license the code however they want, as long as it is compatible with the STmicroelectronics code. That should probably be BSD or GPL+exception. In that case, Debian can distribute it in non-free. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
licence problem with ADSL modem drivers.
Hello, ... I was thinking about doing a package for the Bewan ADSL PCI st modem, but have some questions relating to the licence problems, and to how (and if) we can distribute this package. Bewan (www.bewan.com or www.bewan.fr) does distribute linux drivers in source format, but without any kind of licence agreement, so i contacted them, and after discution with them, i found out the following : The modem is a kind of 'software' modem, having some part physical, and some part done by software. The driver is composed of linux code written by Bewan, and a binary only library whose licencing they do not control, and for which STmicroelectronics does not release sources. They are willing to rebuild for other arches than just ia32 though. This may well change in the future though, but for now it is like that. Bewan is quite willing to licence their code under the GPL or any other licence agreable to us, but i guess the presence of the binary only lib would make this unsuitable for either incorporation in the linux kernel, or distribution as part of the debian archive. So, what is the best way of distributing this ? Should it be distributed from a non debian site (possibly bewan's) ? Should it be possible to build the package without this binary library, and have it be downloaded and/or linked during the installation phase and still go into contrib ? Is it even imagineable that such a driver enters the official linux tree, and use a not GPLed library or something such ? Does it even make sense to support this kind of drivers, or let it be and buy USB modems, like the alcatel speed touch, for which support entered the official 2.5.32 kernel recently ? Ok, these are many questions, i hope you can answer me some. (Please CC me, since i am not subscribed to the list) Friendly, Sven Luther
