[rabbitmq-discuss] [PATCH] Licensing issue with AMQP spec files and generated code

Mon May 25 19:41:34 BST 2009

Hi Alexis,

The guys from Debian seem to be happy with simply making sure the
comments are not present in the generated code and we aren't use the
XML files during the build (some tricky dependency issues), we've
checked in the generated source files.  Therefore, were okay for the
moment.  If there are any other issues I'll let you know.

Regards,
Michael Barker.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Alexis Richardson
<alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael
>
> Apologies.  The DFSG-safe spec in our repos is .json only but you
> could very easily generate a .xml file from it.  This would also be
> DFSG-safe due to the BSD license on the .json file.  Please note that
> these files support AMQP 0-8.  If you would like to see a DFSG-safe
> document for another spec version, please shout out about it here.
>
> alexis
>
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Alexis Richardson
> <alexis.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> Thanks for that note and your patch.
>>
>> You should not use the AMQP-licensed XML files for DFSG compliant
>> distributions.  Please use the BSD licensed .json and .xml from our
>> repos, which are DFSG compliant.  How we got there is a long story
>> that began when we noticed this problem in 2007 and set out to resolve
>> it.  Note that we fixed the problem and that RabbitMQ is now
>> disributed in Ubuntu universe and one of the Debian distributions.
>> Let me know if you need more info and background on this.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> alexis
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Michael Barker <mike at middlesoft.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In the process of building the Mono/AMQP integration, we've run into a
>>> small problem with the licensing of the AMQP spec files and the
>>> generated code.  The email from Mirco Bauer who handles the packaging
>>> for the Debian distribution raised the issue which is detailed here:
>>>
>>> http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2009-May/032255.html
>>>
>>> We are going to resolve this by removing the spec files from Mono
>>> source tree and change the generator so that it does not emit comments
>>> verbatim from the spec files, which will be sufficient to adhere to
>>> the DFSG.  I have attached a small patch to this email that does this.
>>>  There is an additional command line option (/c) that can be used to
>>> re-enable the comments.  It would be useful if this patch could merged
>>> as it would save me from having to maintain this patch outside of the
>>> main rabbitmq source tree.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Michael Barker.
>>>
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>>
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