license issues in java library

Mon Sep 23 09:59:00 GMT 2002

The steering committee received the following from Brian Youmans at the
FSF. Evidently there are problems with two files:
Forwarded message:
> From: FSF Copyright Assignment Clerk <assign@gnu.org>
> Date: 2002年9月19日 15:56:22 -0400
>> In the waning hours of my FSF career (I'm leaving the FSF
> at the end of next week), I have done one of my (infamous?)
> copyright and license checks on the GCC sources, from a
> CVS checkout made this morning.
>> GCC came off surprisingly clean. I found serious problems
> with only two files, detailed below. I may send some diffs for
> minor issues that I can correct myself. If not, I will pass on
> my notes so that someone else can work on the issues (things
> like licenses that should be included in the documentation).
>> - Brian Youmans, FSF copyright clerk
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> the file fastjar/dostime.c
>> Contains the following copyright notice:
>> /*
>> Copyright (C) 1990-1997 Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup Gailly,
> Kai Uwe Rommel, Onno van der Linden and Igor Mandrichenko.
> Permission is granted to any individual or institution to use, copy, or
> redistribute this software so long as all of the original files are included,
> that it is not sold for profit, and that this copyright notice is retained.
>> */
>> The "not sold for profit" part is not GPL compatible; unless we can
> get all the authors to agree to change this, the file (or at least
> that section of the code) needs to be removed/replaced.
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> The copyright notice on libjava/testsuite/libjava.lang/Primes.java:
>> /** Copyright 1998
> * Roedy Green
> * Canadian Mind Products
> * 5317 Barker Avenue
> * Burnaby, BC Canada V5H 2N6
> * tel: (604) 435-3016
> * mailto:roedy@mindprod.com
> * http://mindprod.com
> */
> // May be freely distributed for any purpose but military
>>> This is not a free license, the file needs to be removed, unless we can
> get Roedy Green's permission to change it.