[pkg-firebird-general] [resent] Licensing of firebird manpages

[Damyan Ivanov]

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[ There was no reply to the mail from January 22nd, so I send another ]

Hi, Daniel,

Currently, firebird packages contain several manpages written by you
that use GPLv2+ license. I believe that GPL is incompatible with
IPL/IDPL that is used in the rest of the code.

Are you willing to re-license these?

The manpages are: fbmgr, fbstat, gdef, gfix, gpre and gsec.

I am not recommending IDPL, since it is a) very long and hard to
understand; and b) includes source-of-venue clause that makes California
the state where claims are to be settled.

There are several alternatives for the new license (texts included below):

+ Expat
+ Beerware
+ LGPL-2.1+exception; This is the license, preferred by firebird
  developers in case IDPL can't be used.

I used the Beerware for the manpages I wrote, due to its shortness and
humorous spirit.


In case you don't want to re-license, please say so.


License texts:

LGPL-2.1+exception ==============================================
  # this library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  # modify it under the terms of the gnu lesser general public
  # license as published by the free software foundation; either
  # version 2.1 of the license, or (at your option) any later version.
  # you may obtain a copy of the licence at
  # http://www.gnu.org/licences/lgpl.html
  #
  # as a special exception this file can also be included in modules
  # with other source code as long as that source code has been
  # released under an open source initiative certificed licence.
  # more information about osi certification can be found at:
  # http://www.opensource.org
  #
  # this module is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  # but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
  # merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  see the
  # gnu lesser general public licence for more details.
  #
  # this module was created by members of the firebird development
  # team.  all individual contributions remain the copyright (c) of
  # those individuals and all rights are reserved.  contributors to
  # this file are either listed below or can be obtained from a cvs
  # history command.
  #
  # created by: author name <email>
  #
  # contributor(s):
  #

Expat ===========================================
 # Copyright (c) years authors
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 # a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
 # "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
 # without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
 # distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
 # permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
 # the following conditions:
 #
 # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
 # included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 #
 # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
 # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
 # MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
 # NONINFRINGEMENT.
 # IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
 # CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
 # TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
 # SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Beerware =================================================
  copyright year Author <email>
  Permission is granted to use this document, with or without
  modifications, provided that this notice is retained. If we meet some
  day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in
  return.


Thanks for considering,
	dam
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Damyan Ivanov                           Modular Software Systems
dam at modsoftsys.com
phone +359(2)928-2611, 929-3993              fax +359(2)920-0994
mobile +359(88)856-6067                  dam at jabber.minus273.org
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