Re: [QStat-devx] License of Qstat Changing to Artistic 2.0

[Steven H. <ki...@mu...>]

Should we not consider moving to something like BSD license?

    Regards
    Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre Smolarek" <pi...@un...>
To: <qst...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:05 PM
Subject: [QStat-devx] License of Qstat Changing to Artistic 2.0


> Hello All,
> 
> Due to some incompatibility issues with other licenses, I've been
> advised, and agree, that we should move to Artistic 2.0. I've received
> approval/direction from Steve J. already and as we're under a time
> constraint to make this change over the next couple days (see below) I
> plan to update qstat on SVN later tonight and bundle a release for some
> linux distros.
> 
>> Currently, Fedora is including qstat, which is licensed under
>> the Artistic 1.0 license. This license is no longer a permitted
>> license in
>> Fedora.
>> 
>> Why?
>> 
>>     1. The FSF says it isn't free. They say that the text is vague,
>> and
>>         that it is open to misinterpretation.
>>     2. The perl community (the original authors) agrees with this
>>         assessment. They went so far as to rewrite the Artistic
>> license
>>         to resolve all the identified problems (see
>>         http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0).
>>     3. The OSI has "superseded" the license, recommending strongly
>> that
>>         all users move to Artistic 2.0:
>>         http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-1.0.php
>> 
>> qstat is a useful package, which a fair amount of other Fedora
>> packages depend upon, so we would really prefer not to remove it. Is
>> there any chance you would consider relicensing this code, for
>> example,
>> under the same license as perl5 (GPL+ or Artistic)?
>> 
>> Please get back to me ASAP, our window is almost gone to keep this
>> code
>> in Fedora.
> 
> 
> 
> I apologize for the short notice and I appreciate your patience with me.
> Hopefully there is no unforeseen issue with this, so please let me know
> otherwise.
> 
> I plan to let the users group know about this change later on in the
> week - just wanted you guys to know first.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pierre.
> 
> 
> 
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