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[UDUNITS #XSU-810966]: udunits license is considered to be non-free
- Subject: [UDUNITS #XSU-810966]: udunits license is considered to be non-free
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:31:43 -0700
Justin,
The UDUNITS package is intended to be FOSS. Both GitHub and a license-person at
the Free Software Foundation agree that it is.
The anti-software-patent clause in the UDUNITS license is similar in intent to
the following (from which it was adopted and adapted):
Section 7 of "Common Public License Version 1.0"
Section 7 of "Common Public License, version 1.0 (CPL-1.0)"
Section 7 of "IBM Public License Version 1.0 (IPL-1.0)"
Section 8 of "Lucent Public License Version 1.02 (LPL-1.02)"
Section 7 of "Lucent Public License, Plan 9, version 1.0 (LPL-1.0)"
Clause 3 of "Apache License, Version 2.0"
Clause 3 of "Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (ECL-2.0)"
Clause 11(c) of "RealNetworks Public Source License Version 1.0 (RPSL-1.0)"
Clause 10 of "The Non-Profit Open Software License version 3.0 (NPOSL-3.0)"
Clause 10 of "The Open Software License 2.1 (OSL-2.1)"
Clause 10 of "The Open Software License 3.0 (OSL-3.0)"
Clause 10 of "Academic Free License 3.0"
Clause 13 of "Artistic License 2.0"
Section 7 of "Eclipse Public License -v 1.0"
Section 7 of "Eclipse Public License 1.0 (EPL-1.0)"
Clause 8 of "Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1
(CATOSL-1.1)"
Section 10 of "GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3 (AGPL-3.0)"
Section 10 of "GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPL-3.0)"
Clause 6(E) of "Adaptive Public License 1.0"
All the above can be found at the Open Source Initiative
<https://opensource.org/search/node/cross-claim>.
The bug-report you referenced appears to indicate that we were asked about this
before and refused to answer. I don't recall being asked about this (I'm the
only developer and support person for the UDUNITS package).
Please feel free to continue this interesting conversation.
> Dear devs,
>
> Gentoo Linux [1] has classified your extension of the BSD license used
> for udinits-2.2.20 to be non free. Is this your intention? Various
> extra questions have been raised by the licenses team. Could you
> please comment on that?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
> 1)
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570076
Regards,
Steve Emmerson
Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: XSU-810966
Department: Support UDUNITS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
