Sponsor needed for ACE+TAO package

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:58 -0800, Ken Sedgwick wrote:

>Source RPM:
>http://dist.bonsai.com/ken/ace_tao_rpm/5.4.4-2.SRC/ace+tao-5.4.4-2.src.rpm

Could you please not use "+" characters in the rpm filenames? Its a
minor complaint, to be sure, but there's no reason to have it. "acetao"
or "ace-tao" is preferred.

>There are no legal issues:
>http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-copying.html

The ACE License is not an OSI approved license. The informal rule (soon
to be a formal rule) is that all packages in Fedora Extras should have
an OSI approved license.

Now, IANAL, but I don't see anything in the license that would prevent
it from receiving OSI approval. Its just so that we have our collective
backside covered, and so that we don't have to examine all sorts of odd
legal licenses. If we let this in, it sets bad precedent.

Based on that, I think I'll have to NAK this request. Please submit the
ACE license to OSI for approval
(http://www.opensource.org/docs/certification_mark.php#approval) or
approach the maintainer about dual licensing the source with an OSI
approved license.

~spot
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