From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <558270AE.9080008@xenomai.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:18:06 +0200 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1649054.cG979aVMUy@soho> <66bead79a47e082c19c410f097b53c9e.squirrel@sourcetrek.com> <11760776.AKg2s0Tc8c@indiana> <55826C4D.4000506@siemens.com> <28e34526295769234fe6fe5971714059.squirrel@sourcetrek.com> In-Reply-To: <28e34526295769234fe6fe5971714059.squirrel@sourcetrek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] License Issues List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gilles Chanteperdrix , Jan Kiszka Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org On 06/18/2015 09:05 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2015-06-17 23:35, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: >>> El Dimecres, 17 de juny de 2015, a les 19:25:56, Gilles Chanteperdrix va >>> escriure: >>>> Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> using a debian tool to check the license of the package I have found >>>>> that >>>>> his >>>> >>>>> files: >>>> This mail looks very different from the one you sent me privately and I >>>> told you to post on the list. It does not even concern the same version >>>> of >>>> Xenomai. >>> >>> yes, >>> >>> it's true. But what I understood from you was that it was better that I >>> sent >>> to the list. That file comes from xenomai-2.6.4. Any problem then? >>> >>> I just need to clarify this kind of things because ftp-masters are every >>> day >>> more strict (what I think it's better), especially with licenses. Never >>> happens nothing till the day that something happen. >> >> Out of curiosity: How do these license check work right now? What's the >> tool used and how are the outputs processed (manual or automatic >> decisions etc.)? >> >>> >>> If can check this kind of stuff it would be better, that's all. For >>> instance, I >>> was a bit surprised about the autotools generated files, because I >>> thought they >>> would never had license. >> >> If something has no license, it cannot be used. > > That is an over-simplification. Or maybe a policy of the company you work > at. But that is not a general truth that applies to everyone. > > I believe Jan refers to the default copyright laws in this case, which state that all copyrights are retained by the author. -- Philippe.