License requiring US export law compliance

2015-04-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
(Resend, as the first copy appears to have gone missing) The beignet package is mostly under LGPL2.1, but since version 1.0.0, has included 2 files based on gpuocelot ( https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-opencl/beignet.git/tree/backend/src/ir/structural_analysis.cpp ), under BSD-3 plus this a

License requiring US export law compliance

2015-04-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
The beignet package is mostly under LGPL2.1, but since version 1.0.0, has included 2 files based on gpuocelot ( https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-opencl/beignet.git/tree/backend/src/ir/structural_analysis.cpp ), under BSD-3 plus this additional clause: You agree that the Software will not be

Re: License requiring US export law compliance

2015-04-25 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
An outdated debian/copyright file is a bug in itself... That's already fixed in Alioth. depending on how those two files are bundled together with the rest of beignet They get linked into the same library (libgbe.so) as several LGPL2.1 files (search https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?

Re: gpuocelot / beignet license problem

2015-05-14 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
(Summary of previous discussion: beignet 1.0+ contains 2 files based on gpuocelot[0], under a license that is not allowed in Debian[1,2], and is possibly LGPL-incompatible enough to prohibit distribution of beignet binaries[1,4]. Current gpuocelot[3] has a new top-level LICENSE notice without

Re: gpuocelot / beignet license problem

2015-05-15 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
beignet upstream have agreed that this is a problem, and are currently awaiting a reply from gpuocelot upstream. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/

Re: License requiring US export law compliance

2015-05-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
beignet upstream have now fixed this by removing the offending code, and I have pushed this to Alioth as 1.0.3+dfsg. There has been no public response from gpuocelot upstream [0]. Given that the license restricts redistribution, does it prohibit packaging gpuocelot even in non-free? If so, w

#729008: RFP: gpuocelot - can't be packaged for copyright reasons

2015-05-19 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Control: tags -1 wontfix Most of gpuocelot is not BSD but "BSD plus you must obey US export restrictions (even if you are not in the US)" [0]. This is both non-DFSG-free [1] and impractical for Debian to enforce, and is hence not permitted even in non-free [2]. gpuocelot's authors have been

Re: Github TOS effecting change to copylefts?

2017-03-12 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
As far as I can find, neither the FSF nor the GNUnet project [0] has officially commented (did GNUnet even know that those GitHub mirrors of it existed? they weren't its primary repository, as the FSF already had a policy of not hosting on GitHub for different reasons [1]). It has been mentio

Re: Github TOS effecting change to copylefts?

2017-03-18 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
The FSF has now posted https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/do-githubs-updated-terms-of-service-conflict-with-copyleft : they also don't think GitHub intended the scarier interpretations, but are asking GitHub for clarification.

Stack Overflow and copyrightability of small snippets

2020-04-23 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Many packages include code snippets from, or based on, Stack Overflow answers [0]. Stack Overflow user-posted content is under CC-BY-SA (the version depending on its age) [1], which is a libre license but usually not the license these packages claim to be under. Also, attribution is usually

Bug#1053672: Apple copyright notices in test .xlsx files

2023-10-08 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Source: openpyxl Version: 3.0.9-2 Severity: serious licensecheck -r --copyright . on openpyxl finds these: ./openpyxl/formatting/tests/data/conditional-formatting.xlsx: UNKNOWN [Copyright: 2007 Apple Inc.] ./openpyxl/reader/tests/data/complex-styles.xlsx: UNKNOWN [Copyright: 2007 Apple Inc.]