Licensing on early PolicyKit code

[Alan Perry]

On 7/13/15 3:31 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 08/07/15 16:56, Alan Perry wrote:
>> * Licensed under the Academic Free License version 2.1
>> *
>> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> * (at your option) any later version.
> This looks like the same license grant as dbus. In dbus, we've always
> interpreted it as a dual-license (disjunction), which would be "AFL-2.1
> or GPL-2+" in http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ syntax.
>
> For an answer with any legal relevance, you'd need to talk to the
> copyright holder, not the author (not necessarily the same, if the code
> was written for a corporation). I think the copyright holder for early
> PolicyKit code might be Red Hat? dbus originated in Red Hat, so this
> might have been some RH developer's preferred license grant.
>
> The AFL-2.1 and GPL-2 are indeed not compatible, so an "and" license
> (must comply with both licenses simultaneously) would not make sense: it
> is not possible to comply.
Exactly.

My problem is that I would like to get an explicit statement from the 
copyright holder (David Z.) clarifying the licensing and he just refers 
me to the current maintainers, who are apparently not in contact with him.

alan

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