Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:44:12 -0500 From: Serge Gagnon <serge.gagnon@b2b2c.ca> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: I'm in doubt about the license of devel/plan9port Message-ID: <E1EsTuz-0000sa-0C@quenix1.dyndns.org>
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--Signature=_Fri__30_Dec_2005_18_44_12_-0500_LJ9Z7IMRx/g2iBXV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I'm in doubt about the license of my ports devel/plan9port, then i decided to mark it RESTRICTED. The author of the software contact me and tell me that he think that his software shouldn't not be mark RESTRICTED. However, his software (plan9port AKA:"Plan 9 from User Space" http://swtch.com/plan9port) is a port of another software ( Plan 9 from Bell Labs http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist) to UNIX. The lines in the LICENSE that made me think that it couldn't be redistributed as a package is: "The bitmap fonts in the font/lucida directory are copyright B&H Inc. and Y&Y Inc. and distributed under the following exception to the Lucent license: No right is granted to create derivative works of or to redistribute (other than with the Plan 9 Operating System) the screen imprinter fonts identified in subdirectory font/lucida. This directory contains material copyrights by B&H Inc. and Y&Y Inc." Full LICENSE can be downloaded here: http://cvs.pdos.csail.mit.edu/cvs/plan9/LICENSE IMHO plan9port is not "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" nor "_the_ Plan 9 Operating System" or just "an operating system". It is a certain amount of softwares that come _from_ "Plan 9 from Bell Labs" to UNIX. It is plan9port. The author replied me about what i think about that: "I would argue that distribution of the fonts with plan9port counts as being with the Plan 9 Operating System, since that's what plan9port is, just a port of the Plan 9 Operating System software to Unix systems. If you pulled the fonts out and distributed them with some other piece of software, that wouldn't be allowed. But I think distribution with plan9port is fine." The author seems to be a _very_ good programmer, but i don't know what an _average_ lawyer think about that. However, i found a NOTICE http://cvs.pdos.csail.mit.edu/cvs/plan9/font/lucida/NOTICE in the fonts/lucida directory that tell "This directory contains Bigelow & Holmes Lucida=C2=AE fonts as licensed by Y&Y Inc., 45 Walden Street, Concord, Massachusetts, 01742, USA. Copyright =C2=A9 1993 Bigelow & Holmes Inc. Y&Y LUCIDA FONT SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT NOTICE TO USER: THE FONTS IN THIS DIRECTORY ARE COVERED BY THE PLAN 9 OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT, IN PARTICULAR PARAGRAPH 2.2: 2.2 No right is granted to Licensee to create derivative works of or to redistribute (other than with the Original Software or a derivative thereof) the screen imprinter fonts identified in subdirectory /lib/font/bit/lucida and printer fonts (Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans Italic, Lucida Sans Demibold, Lucida Typewriter, Lucida Sans Typewriter83), identified in subdirectory /sys/lib/postscript/font. Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Incorporated. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated." I don't speak english, then i'm not sure about the part "other than with the Original Software or a derivative thereof". Is the "derivative thereof" could means "plan9port http://swtch.com/plan9port" ? Is the NOTICE that i found in the fonts/lucida directory have priority on the LICENSE that cannot talk about "derivative" ? So, if someone here are some knowledge/experience about license and can answer me if i should or shouldn't remove the RESTRICTED in my port, i'll pay him a beer if he comes to Quebec city ;) --=20 GAGNON serge <serge.gagnon@b2b2c.ca> PGP KEY-ID: 0xBBC1478F PGP Fingerprint: B48B 4633 28F5 28F6 7A62 5650 69C8 E293 BBC1 478F PPG Key: http://quenix2.dyndns.org:7777 | telnet quenix2.dyndns.org 7777 --Signature=_Fri__30_Dec_2005_18_44_12_-0500_LJ9Z7IMRx/g2iBXV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDtcZQacjik7vBR48RAro1AJ9zBlJo1TGMREVJs1ujbUXgVClR3gCfWtxa eiNkVVkAE4T4hhPYOPQVC/s= =sMhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Fri__30_Dec_2005_18_44_12_-0500_LJ9Z7IMRx/g2iBXV--
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