Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On 09/07/15 15:45, Alan Perry wrote: > I cited an ambiguously written licensing comment from an early PolicyKit > header file and asked what was the intended licensing for the file. What > am I trying to achieve? To determine what licensing applies to that > particular header file. Nothing that an

Fwd: Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-13 Thread Alan Perry
Unintentionally hit 'Reply' instead of 'Reply-all'. Correcting that here. Forwarded Message ---- Subject: Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:31:36 -0700 From: Alan Perry Organization: Snowmoose Software/Britis

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-13 Thread Richard Hughes
On 13 July 2015 at 14:59, Alan Perry wrote: > Shouldn't anyone using open source code know what license applies in order > to be sure that they are in compliance with that license? As Simon implied, > there are differences between AFL 2.1 and GPLv2 and it would be good to know > which one should b

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-13 Thread Alan Perry
On 7/13/15 6:49 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 13 July 2015 at 14:33, Alan Perry wrote: My problem is that I would like to get an explicit statement from the copyright holder (David Z.) clarifying the licensing Why? Shouldn't anyone using open source code know what license applies in order to

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-13 Thread Richard Hughes
On 13 July 2015 at 14:33, Alan Perry wrote: > My problem is that I would like to get an explicit statement from the > copyright holder (David Z.) clarifying the licensing Why? Richard ___ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org htt

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-13 Thread Alan Perry
On 7/13/15 3:31 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: On 08/07/15 16:56, Alan Perry wrote: * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1 * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Softwar

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On 08/07/15 16:56, Alan Perry wrote: > * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1 > * > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of t

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-09 Thread Alan Perry
On 7/9/15 1:06 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: On 8 July 2015 at 22:34, Alan Perry wrote: Not exactly an ideal situation, is it? As I said, I asked the author and he referred me here. David now works for Google, and is probably hugely busy. It might be that he's not allowed to work more on this pr

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-09 Thread Richard Hughes
On 8 July 2015 at 22:34, Alan Perry wrote: > Not exactly an ideal situation, is it? As I said, I asked the author and he > referred me here. David now works for Google, and is probably hugely busy. It might be that he's not allowed to work more on this project or comment on historical legal or

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Perry
On 7/8/15 2:27 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Hello, On 7/8/15 1:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Looking at PolicyKit 0.3, it does include some files using that license, but it also says The PolicyKit command-line tools are licensed to you under the GNU General Public License version 2. This license

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, > On 7/8/15 1:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > Looking at PolicyKit 0.3, it does include some files using that license, > > but it also says > >> The PolicyKit command-line tools are licensed to you under the GNU > >> General Public License version 2. > > This license comment is from a head

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Perry
On 7/8/15 1:06 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On 7/8/15 12:23 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Hello, I am trying to confirm the licensing that applies to some early PolicyKit code and David Zeuthen referred me here. The licensing comment reads: * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1 Whi

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Miloslav Trmač
> On 7/8/15 12:23 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > Hello, > >> I am trying to confirm the licensing that applies to some early > >> PolicyKit code and David Zeuthen referred me here. > >> > >> The licensing comment reads: > >> > >> * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1 > > Which “some

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Perry
On 7/8/15 12:23 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: Hello, I am trying to confirm the licensing that applies to some early PolicyKit code and David Zeuthen referred me here. The licensing comment reads: * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1 Which “some code” is this exactly? The curren

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Hello, > I am trying to confirm the licensing that applies to some early > PolicyKit code and David Zeuthen referred me here. > > The licensing comment reads: > > * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1 Which “some code” is this exactly? The current git repo doesn’t contain the w

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Perry
Thanks. So, for the dual licensing, is there an implied "OR" between the two licensing clauses? IANAL, but I don't think AFL and GPL are compatible enough for it to be an "AND". alan On 7/8/15 9:36 AM, Richard Hughes wrote: If it helps, HAL was originally AFL and GPL dual licenced, and I su

Re: Licensing on early PolicyKit code

2015-07-08 Thread Richard Hughes
If it helps, HAL was originally AFL and GPL dual licenced, and I suppose the file header could have been copied from hal to polkit as it was the same maintainer (David Z). I'm pretty sure PolicyKit was just supposed to be GPLv2+. Richard On 8 July 2015 at 16:56, Alan Perry wrote: > > Hi, > > I