[Mageia-dev] gsoap package and license issue

Wed Mar 9 09:32:25 CET 2011

Hi,
+what follows it's last mail I received with a gsoap license
+review, can someone with the right skill help and
+see if we can ship it/can contribute to better fix gpl
+license etc?
+
+TIA
+	Angelo
+
+---------  Messaggio inoltrato  ---------
+
+Oggetto: Re: license explanation and costs
+Data: mercoledì 9 marzo 2011, 00:36:16
+Da: "Burt Walsh" <walsh at genivia.com>
+A: Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux.it>
+CC: "engelen at genivia.com" <engelen at genivia.com>
+
+You are correct about GPL being used commercially.  I have included a 
+copy of the license agreement for your review; I think it should answer 
+most questions.  I am happy to answer anything that is missed. 
+   
+  Thanks,
+   
+  Burt
+   
+  On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 17:58:55  0100, Angelo Naselli  wrote:
+In data martedì 8 marzo 2011 13:59:19, hai scritto:
+  > > You have never been able to ship wsdl2h or soapccp or the source. 
+  > >
+  > >   Thanks,
+  >
+  > Sorry for my late answer,
+  > I'm really confused for that, do you really mean fedora, mandriva, mageia,
+  > arch and what else distros are out of the law?
+  > And do you really mean are you going to miss all those users?
+  > And do you really mean a GPL use of the gsoap project is out of the law?
+  > Note that GPL doesn't mean that can't be used for commercial purpose. 
+  >
+  > If so i will contact all the distro maintainer i know to force 
+removing gsoap
+  > from their repositories as soon as possible, but i'm really sad to 
+read that
+  > since it's not clear on gsoap site that *no one* can redistribute gsoap. 
+  >
+  >
+  > --
+  >  Angelo
+  >
+
+ 
+
+
+martedì 8 marzo 2011 alle 19:26, Angelo Naselli ha scritto:
+> Hi,
+> I was about to upgrade gsoap from 2.7.17 to new 2.8.1, 
+> well i did indeed, when i noticed that the license changed.
+> 
+> So i decided to ask upstream and i've realized from teir answers
+> they don't allow to ship gsoap tools (e.g wsdl2h and soapcpp2) and
+> source code. 
+> 
+> In addition license on:
+> http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soaplicense.html
+> is not very clear and Fedora should remove it soon. 
+> I believe we should do the same at least until something does not change 
+> upstream.
+> 
+> WDYT?
+> 
+> 
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