Bug 1334301

Summary:	Gnuplot44 and Questionable licensed files (Fedora)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	mejiko <private>
Component:	gnuplot44	Assignee:	Steve Traylen <steve.traylen>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description mejiko 2016-05-09 11:11:47 UTC

Hello.

Gnuplot44 included unclear/unknown licensed code.


#File List Start:

A) "gnuplot-4.4.2/src/color.*"


B) "gnuplot-4.4.2/src/bf_test.c"

This file "B" copyright infomation is: 

"Copyright (c) 1992 Robert K. Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Laboratory"


C) "gnuplot-4.4.2/src/binary.*"

This file "C" copyright infomation is: 

"Copyright (c) 1991,1992 Robert K. Cunningham, MIT Lincoln Laboratory"


#File List End:


Why ?

A) "Open Source" is not license.

B) No license infomation. but This author is listed GNUPlot Contributor. See: http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.4/gnuplot.pdf

C) No license infomation. but This author is listed GNUPlot Contributor. See: http://www.gnuplot.info/docs_4.4/gnuplot.pdf

This problem already reported. (Gnewsense).

I suggest that resolve license problem.
Thanks.


Note: This packages is not find fedora repos (SRPM or RPM).


Reference:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?42916

Comment 1 mejiko 2016-05-09 12:35:15 UTC

I'm sorry. I'm wrong.

C) is incorrect. (Wrong file path.)

Correct is: gnuplot-4.4.2/src/binary.c (NOT gnuplot-4.4.2/src/binary.h)

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2016-05-16 20:42:26 UTC

It is highly likely that Petr Mikulik, as a listed "substantial contributor" to gnuplot (http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html) considers his code in gnuplot to be under the gnuplot license, despite the poor attribution in color.c. The same is true for Robert Cunningham.

Given that these files are distributed in a tarball with a license that applies to the entire work (gnuplot license) with these contributors being openly recognized for almost 20 years, I think it is safe to treat these files as being under the terms of the gnuplot license.