Re: [Fedora-legal-list] The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 3:36 AM Florian Weimer wrote: > Is it necessary that an open source license must allow porting to > proprietary systems? I don't think so today. But based on what I > found out about the OpenMotif license, people actually thought that > back then. This surprises me. Has

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2018-10-26 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Is it necessary that an open source license must allow porting to > proprietary systems? I don't think so today. But based on what I > found out about the OpenMotif license, people actually thought that > back then. This surprises me. H

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Jackson: > On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 22:56 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Motif has since been released under the LGPL, so this is largely >> of historic interest. >> >> Was the license of OpenMotif ever submitted to OSI? >> >> >> >> Debian cl

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread Tom Callaway
On 10/26/2018 11:32 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > So if it's not as free everywhere as it would be in Debian, > it's not free enough for Debian. It has never happened that I know of, but if there were a copyright license which was somehow okay only in Fedora (but not for anyone downstream of us), we

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 22:56 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Motif has since been released under the LGPL, so this is largely > of historic interest. > > Was the license of OpenMotif ever submitted to OSI? > > > > Debian clearly considered it non-DFS