Mandriva et les Licences
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Licences Acceptées
Medias main et contrib
Ces deux medias n'acceptent que les logiciels sous licence Libre ou Open Source. Ces licences sont répertoriées par la Free Software Foundation et la Open Source Initiative.
Media non-free
Ce media accepte les logiciels qui ne sont pas sous licence Libre ou Open Source, mais qui donne quand même le droit de redistribuer publiquement. Il n'existe pas de liste de ces licences, les paquet sont introduits au cas par cas.
Media restricted
Ce media regroupe les logiciels qui ne sont pas sous licence Libre ou Open Source et qui ne permet pas la redistribution, ou la limite. Ce media contient donc des paquets que Mandriva peut distribuer uniquement dans ses version commerciales.
Noms Standards de Licences
Mandriva suit la convention de nommage du projet Fedora, que l'on peut consulter sur le wiki Fedora.
Licensing Guidelines for packages
For package maintainers, Mandriva follows the Fedora licensing guidelines, with four important differences. The differences are covered below. In all other respects, please follow the Fedora guidelines. Where Fedora mailing lists are referred to, please substitute the Cooker mailing list: in other words, all discussion of licensing issues is to take place on the Cooker mailing list, and if the license of your package changes, you must notify the Cooker mailing list of this change. Where an email address for a particular individual at Fedora is mentioned, please substitute the equivalent individual in the Mandriva community (so at present, where Tom Callaway is referred to, please email Adam Williamson). Issues to which particular attention must be paid include versioned licenses, and multiple and mixed license cases. Please take particular notice of the various different cases referring to the GPL and LGPL, including the fact that where the source for an application does not specifically state what version(s) of the license apply, it is technically licensed under any version of the license (and so uses the GPL+ or LGPL+ short name).
Licences Artistic
Ces licences sont acceptées dans les medias main et contrib.
Similar licenses
The Fedora guidelines imply that any software that is not licensed under one of the licenses explicitly approved by the FSF or the OSI cannot be included in main or contrib. However, as explained above, Mandriva considers licenses that have effectively the same provisions as an approved license, but phrased in different language, to be acceptable. In this case, the License field in the package should consist of the approved short name for the most similar license, followed by -like. For instance, a package whose license was effectively equivalent to the BSD license would have this field:
License: BSD-like
Licences non-libres
- Freeware (redistribution gratuite du programme sous forme binaire)
- Shareware (redistribution gratuite d'une partie du programme sous forme binaire)
- Proprietary (La redistribution du programme est payante)
Le 2 premiers vont dans le media non-free, le troisième va dans le media restricted. Dans tous les cas, le texte de licence complet doit être présent dans le paquet.
Including license text in packages
The Fedora guidelines state that where the license text is included in the source for the package, it must be included in the compiled package as a documentation file.
In Mandriva Linux, when the license requires a copy of the license text to be included with the compiled code, the license text must be included in the compiled package as a documentation file. When the license does not require a copy of the license text to be included with the compiled code, our policy is that the license text should not be included in the package. Lists follow to clarify which licenses require a copy of the license text to be included with the package, and which do not.
Texte de licence requis
- BSD
Texte de licence non requis
- GPL (toutes versions)
- MIT
