Re: no licenses are granted + BSD-3-clause

Le mar. 9 déc. 2025 à 23:58, Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Tuesday, December 9, 2025 3:40:48 PM Mountain Standard Time Jérémy Lal
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I came across what follows.
> > It's not clear to me how the concatenation of that text + BSD-3-clause
> > gives a whole that isn't DFSG.
> >
> > The Source Map Tests suite ("Software") is protected by copyright and is
> > being made available under the  "BSD License", included below. This
> > Software may be subject to third party rights (rights from parties other
> > than Ecma International), including patent rights, and no licenses under
> > such third party rights are granted under this license even if the third
> > party concerned is a member of Ecma International. SEE THE ECMA CODE OF
> > CONDUCT IN PATENT MATTERS AVAILABLE AT
> > https://www.ecma-international.org/ipr FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE
> > LICENSING OF PATENT CLAIMS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT ECMA
> > INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS*.
> >
> > Copyright (c) 2024, Ecma International
> > All rights reserved.
> >
> > (here follows a standard BSD-3-clause license follows).
>
> Without any background for context, the above information applies to every
> package in Debian, even though it isn’t explicitly stated.  Basically they
> are
> saying:  We are releasing this software under the BSD.  Other people may
> have
> patents that they claim cover this software.  We can’t do anything about
> that.
>
> Any third party can claim they have a patent over any software in Debian.
> It
> usually doesn’t become an issue unless some judicial officer accepts their
> claim and rules that the open-source software must be taken offline.
>
> > Without better advice, I will "dfsg-exclude" the files.
>
> I don’t see any reason we would need to exclude these files unless there
> is
> some information indicating that we can’t distribute them, like a court
> case
> establishing that someone does indeed have patent control over these files.
>


Thanks for the two answers.

The concerned files are straightforward, nothing of concern.
Keeping them, then.