Re: OpenSPF test resources Licence

On Monday 17 September 2007 06:40, Stefano Bagnara wrote:
> I'd like to include the rfc4408-tests.yml and the pyspf-tests.yml files
> in our ASLv2 (Apache Software License v2) licensed SPF implementation
> (jSPF: http://james.apache.org/jspf/).
>
> I see there are no LICENSE files in the testsuite folder
> (http://www.openspf.org/svn/project/test-suite/) but I see that the
> www.openspf.org footer says this "Unless noted otherwise, all content on
> this website is dual-licensed under the  GNU GPL v2 and the  Creative
> Commons CC BY-SA 2.5.".
>
> Unfortunately GPLv2 does not let us redistribution under the ASLv2
> license and "CC BY-SA" is under investigation by the ASF legal team and
> we cannot currently ship it under that terms.
>
> At the same time I see that those files are included in the BSD licensed
>  Mail-SPF library (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-SPF/). If this means
> that they have been licensed under the BSD then we could use them
> because BSD is ASLv2 compatible.
>
> Can you clarify this point? Can you add a LICENSE file to the svn folder
> containing the tests?
>
> I think it would be really important to have an BSD license or similar
> that allow anyone to include that resources in their implementations.
>
> Of course we can simply not ship them with our source disribution but I
> guess that the SPF community would gain benefits from spreading of that
> resources in test-suite and would also receive much more contribution
> back from such "users".
>
> Stefano

This is a good point.  They are also shipped in the Python Software Foundation 
Licensed pyspf, which is BSDish.  So, given that the primary authors of the 
test suite have distributed it under BSD or BSD like terms, I'm pretty sure 
then answer is that it's OK, but it should definitely be clarified as you 
suggest.

Scott K

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