On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:32:35PM -0600, Ean Schuessler wrote: > I'm here at ApacheCon with Simon Phipps and he said that Sun would be > "delighted to help Debian resolve the RPC licensing problems". He wanted to > note that the Free Software Definition did not exist at the time when Sun > released to the community and they couldn't have predicted that it would > violate the DFSG. Considering when it was released, its very open. He also > noted that Sun hasn't pursued any legal action in all this time and that is > a good indicator of their position on the whole thing.
And now it seems there's even more movement: http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/old_code_and_old_licenses “On Saturday I was able to tell Europe's Free Software developers that the licenses on the RPC code are no longer a barrier to Free software - we'll change the license to Sun's copyrights in the RPC code to a standard 3-clause BSD license, allowing inheritance of that licensing by both Debian and Fedora.” I don't know exactly how it will happen (ie., if they will release a new version, or issue some sort of formal statement like the BSDs once did that you are allowed to ignore the previous license, or whatnot), but it's certainly a good thing. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
