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

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:32:35PM +0200, Fritz Ferstl wrote:
> terrific news about integrating Grid Engine into Debian! Are you 
> building binaries yourself or are you using the bits we provide?

We have to build ourselves if targetted at Debian's main distribution,
that's part of the policy.

> Per your licensing question: Yes, you can assume that everything not 
> explicitly licensed is copyrighted by Sun and is under the SISSL.

Excellent.  As I said, maybe you can clarify this in some README file at
the top level of the source distribution, so others do not have to
wonder as well.
 
> 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?
 
See http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gridengine-devel/2007-April/000009.html
for more information, I'm quoting some of it here:

 * html files: These have no license or copyright details at all
   as far as I can see.
 * the manpages.  These are Copyright Sun but don't have the
   SISSL notice in them; technically I think this makes them
   non-redistributable as I can't find any global LICENSE document
   in the source tree
 * resources files: These are just config files, I don't think we
   need to worry about them; they're too trivial
 * xpm files: These have no license or copyright details at all
   as far as I can see
 * translation files: Again, no license or copyright details in the
   .po files.  In fact, one of them contains this gem:
# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # FIRST AUTHOR
# <EMAIL at ADDRESS>, YEAR. # 
   SIGH....
 * remaining files.  These need checking individually.

So I think this only involves non-sourcecode files (Mark should
correctly me if I'm wrong).  With your above clarification, that should
be good enough for Debian to include it, I hope.


thanks,

Michael