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Bug 537924 - dev-lang/mosml: licensing issues
Summary: dev-lang/mosml: licensing issues
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
URL:
Whiteboard: Pending removal: 2015-04-22
Keywords: PMASKED
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-01-26 21:04 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2015-04-26 12:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-01-26 21:04:01 UTC
Per http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mosml.git/tree/dead.package we should maybe stop supplying this package:
This code (Moscow ML) is under several licenses, but some of it is directly derived from an old version of of Caml Light, so even though Moscow ML is
mostly licensed under the GPL (version 2 or later), it is incompatible with the old INRIA Caml Light license (which was non-free). This
makes the whole work non distributable (and non-free). I made attempts to contact INRIA to see if they would grant permission for the Moscow ML
derived work to inherit newer license permissions (the current INRIA Caml Light version is Free), but they never responded.

If/when INRIA or Moscow ML resolves this licensing issue, this package could be reconsidered for Fedora.

Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> Wednesday September 10, 2008
Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-04-26 12:44:14 UTC
dropped