Re: [gNewSense-users] Possible problem with closed bug 123

[Paul O'Malley]

Markus Laire wrote:
> Markus Laire wrote:
> > Brian said:
> > : One reading of this is: "Users may copy or modify Sun RPC without
> > : charge, but are not authorized to license or distribute it to anyone
> > : else except as part of a product or program developed by the user" -
> > : the second clause of the "or" can be ignored.
> >
> > IMO the meaning of the license is clearly "Users may copy or modify 
> > Sun RPC without charge, but are not authorized to license or 
> > distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product developed by 
> > the user or program developed by the user" (note the added text).
>
> After thinking this a bit more I'm not so sure anymore whether it is 
> meant to mean "except as part of a (product) or (program developed by 
> the user)" or "except as part of a (product or program) developed by the 
> user"
>
> In a case like this shouldn't gNS contact the copyright holder(s) 
> instead of deciding to interpret the license favorably for gNS?

Markus,

Your extract was not verbose enough to prove your case.
You should have started here:
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Upstream Author: Wietse Venema

Copyright:

Most of the files, fall under the following copyright, and are distributable
under the terms of the BSD license (/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD):

 * Copyright (c) 1983,1991 The Regents of the University of California.
 * All rights reserved.

Some of the RPC code, is copyrighted by Sun Microsystems, and is 
provided under the following terms:

-----

This implies that the code is part of a product which Wietse has licensed.

Licence is thus free!

D ^e b ^i a^ n  00 l ^e g ^a 01l is a different list. ;-)


Regards,

Paul