[Pkg-gridengine-devel] License audit

[Michael Banck]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:22:26PM +0100, Mark Hymers wrote:
> Ok,  I've started a full license audit which we'll need to get through
> NEW and I thought should be done before upstream source appears in SVN.

Thanks a lot for that.

> The full file list is:
> mark at dynam:~/deb/packages/working/sge$ wc -l sge_full
> 3252 sge_full
> 
> mark at dynam:~/deb/packages/working/sge$ wc -l sge_file_list_*
>    856 sge_file_list_3rdparty
>    331 sge_file_list_html
>    103 sge_file_list_manpages
>    207 sge_file_list_remaining
>     55 sge_file_list_resources
>   1580 sge_file_list_sissl
>      6 sge_file_list_translations
>    114 sge_file_list_xpm
>   3252 total
> 
> So.  The sissl files (which are all ok) make up 1580 of the files.
> 
> Of the remainder, we have:
>  * 3rdparty files:  The copyrights for these files are documented in
>    source/dist/3rd_party/3rd_party_licscopyrights  We need to check
>    that all these licenses are DFSG free and compatible; in some cases
>    we can just pull the code; e.g. Debian always has a perfectly good
>    implementation of snprintf :-)
>  * 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.

Hrm.

Maybe the best approach would be to ask on the Grid Engine list to
clarify that all the files which are not copyrighted by somebody else
than Sun are SISSL (so, files which are (C) or have no obvious
copyright).  I think that should be fine for NEW, if they agree on this.

As for 3rd party, those probably need a deeper look, yes.


Michael