no need to keep non-copylefted files that way in a copylefted project. (was Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence)

2019-03-19 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
David Lamparter wrote: > The respective original authors have expressed and reaffirmed their wishes > for the code to remain under a permissive license. . .. we have decided to > try and honour the original author's requests. That's an odd request, since it contradicts the terms of the license

Re: redistribution of the ARIN TAL

2019-03-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marco d'Itri: > ARIN believes that they have a right to limit distribution of this RSA > public key (used for verification of routing security): > > https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/arin-rfc7730.tal Do they actually do that? Prevent redistribution? If so, I can't find where. > Does

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Jakma: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Roberto wrote: > >> On the other side, if I understood correctly, there are authors who >> want to contribute their code under GPL exclusively, and they feel >> that some of their changes got included into the bundled libraries >> (and are significant

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Ole Streicher
Paul Jakma writes: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: > >> Paul Jakma writes: >>> The people involved in (3) - Linux Foundation, Cumulus Networks, >>> 6WIND, Big Switch Networks, etc. - refuse to acknowledge the legal >>> reality that the code of (3) is covered by the GPL licence of the

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Ole Streicher wrote: Paul Jakma writes: The people involved in (3) - Linux Foundation, Cumulus Networks, 6WIND, Big Switch Networks, etc. - refuse to acknowledge the legal reality that the code of (3) is covered by the GPL licence of the code of (2), and refuse to honour

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Ole Streicher
Paul Jakma writes: > The people involved in (3) - Linux Foundation, Cumulus Networks, > 6WIND, Big Switch Networks, etc. - refuse to acknowledge the legal > reality that the code of (3) is covered by the GPL licence of the code > of (2), and refuse to honour the conditions required by the GPL -

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Roberto
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 02:22:08PM +, Paul Jakma wrote: > 3. People took the code of (2), and adapted that code - extensively and >explicitly - to make use of and rely upon the facilities of the code >of (1); facilities which were missing in the code of (2). > > The people involved in

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
Correction: On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Paul Jakma wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Roberto wrote: On the other side, if I understood correctly, there are authors who want to contribute their code under GPL exclusively, and they feel that some of their changes got included into the bundled libraries

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019, Roberto wrote: On the other side, if I understood correctly, there are authors who want to contribute their code under GPL exclusively, and they feel that some of their changes got included into the bundled libraries (and are significant enough to be covered by

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Roberto
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 02:08:38PM +0100, David Lamparter wrote: > The respective original authors have expressed and reaffirmed their > wishes for the code to remain under a permissive license. While we > could obviously just slap GPL on top, we have decided to try and honour > the original

Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence

2019-03-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019, Vincent Bernat wrote: IMO because the definition of derived work comes from binary linking (static or dynamic). The advice I've had did not reason in these terms. As I know the FRR people think computer technical implementation details like dynamic linkage, and address