On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be > "delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems". He > wanted to note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the > time when Sun released to the community and they couldn't have > predicted that it would violate the DFSG. Considering when it was > released, its very open. He also noted that Sun hasn't pursued any > legal action in all this time and that is a good indicator of their > position on the whole thing. > > All we need to do is get Simon a diff of what changes we need made and > he will help us make the arrangements. In short, Sun is all for Debian > keeping the RPC code in libc6 or the kernel and will do what is > necessary to make it happen.
Assuming Sun is the sole copyright holder of that code, he could advise their IP laywers/whoever to relicense the code; either to the glibc license (LGPL-1.2 or later, currently), or perhaps the BSD license. The latter would probably be best for portmap as well, considering is is BSD licensed. If Sun does not want to relicense to BSD/LGPL this code due to their corporate licensing strategy, but still want to see the code remain in Debian's glibc/portmap, they should propose a compatible license they like I'd say. Thanks for working on this, let's hope we can resolve this in time for Lenny! regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
