Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

I would add that the OpenSSL folks have stated that they currently intend to relicense, but have unfortunately tentatively decided on yet another GPLv2 incompatible license. I have asked them to reconsider using the UPL, the MIT license, or some other permissive GPLv2 compatible license, but as

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

Do not give up hope, no change has yet occurred, and more voices calling attention to the problematic consequences of this choice may yet change their minds. :-) > I have also repeatedly written to them in order to recommend the > adoption of the 3-clause BSD license [2], the Expat license [3]

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

I can’t speak for anyone else but a license which makes special exception for the Debian distro only strikes me as potentially not in conformance with the DFSG (in particular, #8 - see https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines ). Best,

Updates to MySQL Community Edition License

. Regards, Jim Wright at Oracle Universal Foss Exception - Draft In addition to the rights set forth in the other license(s) included in the distribution for this software, data, and/or documentation (collectively the "Software," and such licenses collectively with this additional perm

Re: GPL-2-only packages using GPL-3+ readline

There are a few lawyers here, myself included, though I’m not sure anyone on list actually has an attorney-client relationship with the distro or its makers (and to be clear, I have no such relationship and nothing I say here should be construed as legal advice). All of that said, the suggesti