Re: TAO & omniORB license clarification

[Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>]

On 12 Apr, Henning Makholm wrote:
 > Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
 > 
 > > > > You may copy and extend functionality (but may not remove functionality)
 > > > > of the Interface Definition Language CFE without charge, but you are not
 > > > > authorized to license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a
 > > > > product or program developed by you or with the express written consent
 > > > > of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun").
 > 
 > > It can't even go into no-free, can it? One is only allowed to
 > > distribute it as part of a program one has developed oneself.
 > 
 > Please forget this. When reading the license carefully it says that
 > the program author *may* license his derived work for copying by
 > a third party (e.g. Debian). Of course this helps nothing with the
 > DFSG, but it should be able to be in non-free still.

Hehe, you scared me for second. :)

Indeed, these Sun licenses aren't very free.  Do you think Debian has
enough influence to get Sun to change the terms of its licenses for IIOP
1.0 (for TAO) and the IDL CFE (for OmniORB)?

(please CC me)

Thanks,
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
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