[Fedora-legal-list] Mutual Termination for Patent Action on webmin

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote, at 11/13/2008 01:49 AM +9:00:
> On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 00:31 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am trying to look at webmin review request (bug 468570)
>> because this is the second package the reporter (and my sponsornee)
>> submitted. Then:
>>
>> webmin 1.430 has "PATENTS" file which contains:
<snip>
> This is not a separate license, rather, it is an additional clause for
> the webmin license (which is otherwise BSD). This additional clause
> makes the webmin license GPLv2 and GPLv3 incompatible.
> 
> Since webmin is a web application, there should not be any real concern
> as a result of this incompatibility (aside from code copying), but I
> will need to add a new entry to the Licensing table for webmin. Use:
>  
> License: Webmin
> 
> ~spot

Thank you.

Mamoru