[redland-dev] [Redland Language Bindings 0000413]: Licensing of source code is unclear to distributions

Mantis Bug Tracker mantis-bug-sender at librdf.org
Sat Jan 22 21:32:09 CET 2011


The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=413 
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Reported By:                thomasvs
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Redland Language Bindings
Issue ID:                   413
Category:                   
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Binding Language (java, perl, php, python, ruby, tcl): python 
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Date Submitted:             2011-01-22 20:32
Last Modified:              2011-01-22 20:32
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Summary:                    Licensing of source code is unclear to distributions
Description: 
During the review for Fedora packaging, the following comment was made:

* There are many files under perl/ and php/ directories, which have the license
text:
   # This package is Free Software or Open Source available under the           
   # following licenses (these are alternatives):                               
   #   1. GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)                              
   #   2. GNU General Public License (GPL)                                      
   #   3. Mozilla Public License (MPL)
These do not state any license versions. It would be good to ask upstream.

On the other hand, for example, python/RDF.py says that it is LGPLv2+ or GPLv2+
or ASL 2.0 or MIT, which makes the licensing scenario even more complicated.



(See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659082)

Maybe the source code should be reviewed and the licensing situation cleared up?
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-01-22 20:32 thomasvs       New Issue                                    
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