In this case at a minimum the licence stated in the RPM should be
changed...and the proper licence conditions stated. (If this not done
anyone distributing the rpm is potentially breaking copyright laws).
I would like it clarified exactly what GridPP's policy now wrt
Open Source?...the policy has clearly changed!
Related to this, from a practical point of view...does anyone know what
has happened to the promise to distribute source RPMS?
Alex
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Gordon, JC (John) wrote:
> DESY are working towards an open source licence for dCache. This is
> still with their lawyers, and has been for a long time. Meanwhile RAL
> has been given access to the source. The GridPP Storage people at RAL
> have the task of supporting dCache for GridPP so they should be able to
> use the source to fix problems and give you new releases (ie it is of
> use to the rest of you). Whether they are geared up to building a
> release for a different operating system I cannot say. I suspct all
> their time is taken just now helping SC3 sites get it working.
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kostas Georgiou
>> Sent: 22 June 2005 23:28
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: d-cache software license?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:37:39PM +0100, Alex Martin wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if the license has changed? Or what has happened?
>>
>> From discussions in the recent SysMan meeting the license is
>> not Open Source
>> and it's unlikely that it will change. Some GridPP (or RAL?) people
>> have access to the source code through, not that this is any
>> help to the rest
>> of us :(
>>
>>> I understood it was GridPP policy to only develop and use
>> Open Source s/w. Is
>>> hope this is still the case?
>>
>> Apparently this isn't the case anymore :(
>>
>> Kostas
>>
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