[Pkg-gridengine-devel] [GE dev] License clarification

[Fritz Ferstl]

I see that I forgot to CC the Debian Grid Engine Maintainer alias ...

Fritz Ferstl wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> terrific news about integrating Grid Engine into Debian! Are you 
> building binaries yourself or are you using the bits we provide?
> 
> Per your licensing question: Yes, you can assume that everything not 
> explicitly licensed is copyrighted by Sun and is under the SISSL.
> 
> Thanks for pointing out that some files did not contain proper copyright 
> notices. We did a quick check and found only XPM files and JavaDocs 
> missing them. Did you come across any other files without copyright 
> notices?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fritz
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [GE dev] License clarification
> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:32:40 +0100
> From: Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org>
> Reply-To: dev at gridengine.sunsource.net
> To: Sun Grid Engine Developers <dev at gridengine.sunsource.net>
> CC: Debian Grid Engine Maintainers
> <pkg-gridengine-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> 
> Hello Grid Engine Developers,
> 
> we are currently at the last stage of preparing gridengine packages for
> the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  We have to say we are very happy to
> finally have an enterprise-ready Grid schedular included in Debian.
> 
> One thing we are required to do before putting a new package into the 
> Debian
> archive is a license audit.  During that, we found[1] that quite a few 
> files
> (most of them data files, like html files, manpages or xpm graphics) do not
> have a clear copyright; we are aware that you important other files from
> third
> party projects.
> 
> Can we assume that everything that is not explicitely licensed by
> somebody else is actually copyrighted by Sun under the SISSL?  That
> would help us a lot.
> 
> If this turns out to be the case, I would suggest you add a notice about
> this to a top-level README file or similar to make this clear.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael for the Debian Grid Engine maintainers
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gridengine-devel/2007-April/000009.html 
> 
> 
> 

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