[PolyORB-users] Questions about licensing after close scrutiny by Debian

[Vadim Godunko]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> Although I could not download the orig.tar.gz file of your package, I checked
> out the PolyORB Subversion sources and found files in ./testsuite/idls/test*
> with the following header:
> 
> // Copyright (c) 1997 X/Open Company Ltd., A member of The Open Group.
> //
> // All rights reserved. No part of this source code may be reproduced,
> // stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any
> // means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
> // except as stated in the end-user licence agreement, without the prior
> // permission of the copyright owners.
> 
All files inside testsuite can be safely excluded.

> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Alcatel
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1989- 2001, Hewlett-Packard Company
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Highlander Communications, L.C.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Inprise Corporation
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1995 - 2001, IONA Technologies, Ltd.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998 - 2001, Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, Inc.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, 2001, Lucent Technologies, Inc.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Nortel Networks
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 2002,Object Management Group, Inc.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, 2001, Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Object-Oriented Concepts, Inc.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1991 - 2001, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> ./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Tri-Pacific Software, Inc.
> 
This file required for RT-CORBA. Here is complete copyright note in it:

The companies listed above have granted to the Object Management Group,
Inc. (OMG) a nonexclusive, royalty-free, paid up, worldwide license to
copy and distribute this document and to modify this document and
distribute copies of the modified version. Each of the copyright holders
listed above has agreed that no person shall be deemed to have infringed
the copyright in the included material of any such copyright holder by
reason of having used the specification set forth herein or having
conformed any computer software to the specification.

> ./compilers/ciao/ada_be-mappings-dsa.adb:--          Copyright (C) 1999-2002 ENST Paris University, France.          --
> ./compilers/ciao/ciao-types.ads:--  Copyright (C) 1999 �cole nationale sup�rieure des t�l�communications.
> ./compilers/ciao/ciao-alloc.ads:--  Copyright (C) 1999 �cole nationale sup�rieure des t�l�communications.
> ./compilers/ciao/ciao-hostparm.ads:--  Copyright (C) 1999 �cole nationale sup�rieure des t�l�communications.
> 
These files also can be excluded.