[Pkg-gridengine-devel] [GE dev] License clarification

[Orion Poplawski]

Michael Banck wrote:
> Hello Grid Engine Developers,
> 
> we are currently at the last stage of preparing gridengine packages for
> the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  We have to say we are very happy to
> finally have an enterprise-ready Grid schedular included in Debian.
> 
> One thing we are required to do before putting a new package into the Debian
> archive is a license audit.  During that, we found[1] that quite a few files
> (most of them data files, like html files, manpages or xpm graphics) do not
> have a clear copyright; we are aware that you important other files from third
> party projects.
> 
> Can we assume that everything that is not explicitely licensed by
> somebody else is actually copyrighted by Sun under the SISSL?  That
> would help us a lot.
> 
> If this turns out to be the case, I would suggest you add a notice about
> this to a top-level README file or similar to make this clear.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael for the Debian Grid Engine maintainers
> 
> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gridengine-devel/2007-April/000009.html

I'm starting the package process for Fedora:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=316141

Has there been more progess on the audit for debian?

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