From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: X.org licenses Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:45:30 +0100 Message-ID: <201302262245.30416.andreas@enge.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55179) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UASLF-0008Gw-CC for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:45:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UASLA-00015r-Se for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:45:41 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:61193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UASLA-00015R-IF for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:45:36 -0500 List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: bug-guix@gnu.org I started adding license information to the 184 packages in the X11 distribution, and did not get very far... There is a list of several very similar licenses used, see http://www.xfree86.org/current/LICENSE5.html Number 5.11 is referred to as x11 in license.scm; is it okay to use x11 for all others as well? font-adobe-utopia-* has this strange license: Permission to use, reproduce, display and distribute the listed typefaces is hereby granted, provided that the Adobe Copyright notice appears in all whole and partial copies of the software and that the following trademark symbol and attribution appear in all unmodified copies of the software: Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated Utopia (R) Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated The Adobe typefaces (Type 1 font program, bitmaps and Adobe Font Metric files) donated are: Utopia Regular Utopia Italic Utopia Bold Utopia Bold Italic There is no explicit permission to modify the fonts. On the other hand, the sentence speaking of "umodified copies" seems to imply that modified copies may also be distributed. The license of font-bh-* has the same ambiguity as far as modification is concerned: This is the LEGAL NOTICE pertaining to the Lucida fonts from Bigelow & Holmes: NOTICE TO USER: The source code, including the glyphs or icons forming a par of the OPEN LOOK TM Graphic User Interface, on this tape and in these files is copyrighted under U.S. and international laws. Sun Microsystems, Inc. of Mountain View, California owns the copyright and has design patents pending on many of the icons. AT&T is the owner of the OPEN LOOK trademark associated with the materials on this tape. Users and possessors of this source code are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright and design patent license to use this code in individual and commercial software. A royalty-free, nonexclusive trademark license to refer to the code and output as "OPEN LOOK" compatible is available from AT&T if, and only if, the appearance of the icons or glyphs is not changed in any manner except as absolutely necessary to accommodate the standard resolution of the screen or other output device, the code and output is not changed except as authorized herein, and the code and output is validated by AT&T. Bigelow & Holmes is the owner of the Lucida (R) trademark for the fonts and bit-mapped images associated with the materials on this tape. Users are granted a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use the trademark only to identify the fonts and bit-mapped images if, and only if, the fonts and bit-mapped images are not modified in any way by the user. Any use of this source code must include, in the user documentation and internal comments to the code, notices to the end user as follows: (c) Copyright 1989 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun design patents pending in the U.S. and foreign countries. OPEN LOOK is a trademark of AT&T. Used by written permission of the owners. (c) Copyright Bigelow & Holmes 1986, 1985. Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes. Permission to use the Lucida trademark is hereby granted only in association with the images and fonts described in this file. SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., AT&T, AND BIGELOW & HOLMES MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THIS SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., AT&T AND BIGELOW & HOLMES, SEVERALLY AND INDIVIDUALLY, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOURCE CODE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., AT&T OR BIGELOW & HOLMES BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOURCE CODE. What do you think? Do trisquel and gnewsense distribute all files from x.org? Andreas