Recently, most (all?) of Dan Bernstein's software was relicensed into the public domain.
Please hold off on packaging and submitting these packages for review into Fedora, pending legal advice as to whether he can actually do that or not, under US law.
Thanks,
~spot
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:23 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
Recently, most (all?) of Dan Bernstein's software was relicensed into the public domain.
Please hold off on packaging and submitting these packages for review into Fedora, pending legal advice as to whether he can actually do that or not, under US law.
And the answer is that we are fine to pick these up. Hold lifted.
~spot
"Tom "spot" Callaway" tcallawa@redhat.com writes:
Recently, most (all?) of Dan Bernstein's software was relicensed into the public domain.
Please hold off on packaging and submitting these packages for review into Fedora, pending legal advice as to whether he can actually do that or not, under US law.
[ blink... ] I would be interested to know what legal theory claims that DJB cannot relicense his own work.
regards, tom lane