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

Mon May 25 19:53:20 BST 2009

Michael,

Many thanks.

alexis

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Michael Barker <mike at middlesoft.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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