#1695 closed task (fixed)
Physics is lacking a dedicated LICENSE file
Reported by: | sdz | Owned by: | garycmartin |
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Priority: | Urgent | Milestone: | Unspecified |
Component: | Physics | Version: | Git as of bugdate |
Severity: | Trivial | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Distribution/OS: | Unspecified | |
Bug Status: | New |
Description
Title says it all... ;)
Attachments (3)
Change History (9)
comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by quozl
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by quozl
A license and copyright analysis.
In summary, Physics contains multiple components of varying licenses; GPLv3, BSD, and zlib/libpng. Physics itself is licensed under GPLv3 but not in the safest manner. The dependencies in lib/ are correctly licensed, except for olpcgames which has a slight modification.
In detail, in the Physics mainline git repository:
- the file physics.py refers briefly to GPLv3 but not in the safest manner described by the license,
- there are two copyrights claimed for Physics and Elements in physics.py, the second is unnecessary as the Elements egg file in lib has copyright and license (GPLv3) properly identified,
- the file olpcgames/copying contains a modified BSD License, in that the contributors have been removed from the last paragraph that starts with THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED, and the same file is provided by Maze with file name COPYING,
- the Box2D EGG-INFO says it is zlib/libpng License, the text of which can be found in init.py and matches other copies
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by quozl
- Keywords r? added
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by sdz
- Bug Status changed from Unconfirmed to New
- Priority changed from Unspecified by Maintainer to Urgent
ping?
comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by garycmartin
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Thanks, patches applied an new Physics-4 bundle uploaded to ASLO. Have a source tar-ball I can email someone if needed. I no longer have, or want, shell access to upload it to downloads.sl.org, but happy to upload to some other formal location if needed.
comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by garycmartin
- Keywords r? removed
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