[Fedora-legal-list] SystemC OSCI License and Fedora is an Non-Profit org

2009-11-16 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
Hello there, I bring this SystemC's legal discussion alive again as I believe it would be a very big asset for FEL. SystemC was refused to under fedora collection due to a licensing issue. Tom Callaway went to talk with OSCI's lawyer with some recommendations, but in vain. I'm in discussions

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] ChemDoodle Web Components license

2009-11-16 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 11/12/2009 05:57 AM, Gianluca Sforna wrote: Hi, I'm having a look at packaging ChemDoodle Web Components, a Javascript set of classes to manage chemical structures in web pages. Now, the license is GPLv3+ but they have an additional exception detailed in:

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] license for plpa

2009-11-16 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 11/13/2009 06:06 PM, Steve Traylen wrote: Hi, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530230 has been blocked on FE-Legal for sometime. It looks fine bsd'ish but has a lot of extra text. In fact as mentioned in the review this code is already in Fedora as a private library

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Photographs of hardware in Fedora documentation

2009-11-16 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 11/15/2009 11:04 PM, Ruediger Landmann wrote: The new Fedora Wireless Guide includes photographs of different types of wireless adapter: http://sradvan.fedorapeople.org/Wireless_Guide/en-US/html-single/#sect-Wireless_Guide-Hardware-Types_Of_Cards In each case, the manufacturer's logos

[Fedora-legal-list] Linking an LGPL library statically to an GPL program

2009-11-16 Thread Christian Krause
Hi, during a package review I've stumbled over the following problem: - a package ships the following in its tarball: a LGPLv2 library a GPLv2+ main application - the main application statically links the library and only the resulting binary is shipped in the final rpm If I interpret

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Linking an LGPL library statically to an GPL program

2009-11-16 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 11/16/2009 06:03 PM, Christian Krause wrote: I'm a little bit unsure about: - Does the fact, that the library is statically linked, affects the compatibility or does the same rules apply as for dynamic linking? For the purposes of

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Linking an LGPL library statically to an GPL program

2009-11-16 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 11/17/2009 12:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: Yes but you are missing one thing. The library is LGPLv2. It is not LGPLv2+. Doesn't it make the resultant binary GPLv2, without the + ? Well, the text of the LGPL says: You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public License