status of file with multiple licences

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Sep 19 22:49:44 UTC 2005


Hi,

In a package I have submitted to fedora extras (grads) there is a file 
with a lot of copyright and licences. Is it considered to be problematic 
or not? The licences seems to be all BSD, and so compatible together 
(except that there is one without licence...). What I am interested in 
is not really an answer about those examples but something about the 
possibility of inclusion in extras of files with multiple licences.
Here are the licences, they all appear in the same file. 

/* gd.h: declarations file for the gifdraw module.

        Written by Tom Boutell, 5/94.
        Copyright 1994, Cold Spring Harbor Labs.
        Permission granted to use this code in any fashion provided
        that this notice is retained and any alterations are
        labeled as such. It is requested, but not required, that
        you share extensions to this module with us so that we
        can incorporate them into new versions. */

/* Code drawn from ppmtogif.c, from the pbmplus package
**
** Based on GIFENCOD by David Rowley <mgardi at watdscu.waterloo.edu>. A
** Lempel-Zim compression based on "compress".
**
** Modified by Marcel Wijkstra <wijkstra at fwi.uva.nl>
**
** Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
**
** Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
** documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
** that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
** copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
** documentation.  This software is provided "as is" without express or
** implied warranty.
**
** The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of
** CompuServe Incorporated.  GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of
** CompuServe Incorporated.

/*
 *
 * GIF Image compression - modified 'compress'
 *
 * Based on: compress.c - File compression ala IEEE Computer, June 1984.
 *
 * By Authors:  Spencer W. Thomas       (decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas)
 *              Jim McKie               (decvax!mcvax!jim)
 *              Steve Davies            (decvax!vax135!petsd!peora!srd)
 *              Ken Turkowski           (decvax!decwrl!turtlevax!ken)
 *              James A. Woods          (decvax!ihnp4!ames!jaw)
 *              Joe Orost               (decvax!vax135!petsd!joe)
 *
 */

/* +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ */
/* | Copyright 1990, 1991, 1993, David Koblas.  (koblas at netcom.com)    | */
/* |   Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software   | */
/* |   and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby | */
/* |   granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all | */
/* |   copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission  | */
/* |   notice appear in supporting documentation.  This software is    | */
/* |   provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.           | */
/* +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ */

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Pat




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