XZ upstream thinks about switching from PD to 0BSD.

2024-02-13 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Hi, the XZ upstream project thinks about changing the license from Public Domain to BSD Zero clause license: https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/79 I *think* the PD "license" has no copyright and this isn't an issue for Debian. Could someone please comment on behalf of the Debia

Re: Compatibility of GPLv2 and Apache v2 (OpenSSL again)

2018-12-07 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On December 7, 2018 6:34:39 PM UTC, Francesco Poli wrote: >On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:04:22 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: >This has already been mentioned in the past: >https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2015/09/msg1.html > >It was a long ongoing process. >The news is that it seems to have finally c

Re: Compatibility of GPLv2 and Apache v2 (OpenSSL again)

2018-12-07 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On December 7, 2018 6:04:22 AM UTC, Ben Finney wrote: >Sebastian Andrzej Siewior writes: >> The wording (of the addon) was drafted on debian-legal a few years >> back. > >Can you give citations to what you're referring to? there have been >many >such discussion

Re: Compatibility of GPLv2 and Apache v2 (OpenSSL again)

2018-12-06 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Ben Finney writes: >Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[hidden email]> writes: > >> Clamav for instance has this piece: > >Right. That piece is not part of any version of the GPL; it is an >additional clause in the grant for recipients of that specific work >(ClamAV).

Compatibility of GPLv2 and Apache v2 (OpenSSL again)

2018-12-04 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Hi, GPL software has an exception clause in order to link against OpenSSL which has the advertising clause. Clamav for instance has this piece: | In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give | permission to link the code of portions of this program with the | OpenSSL library un