Re-homing of RAToolSet to RIPE NCC
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Steven Bakker
steven at icoe.att.com
Thu Oct 4 14:03:50 CEST 2001
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 12:27, Bill Manning wrote: > I don't think that the USC licence will allow a GNU type > licence to be applied. And while it would be prudent to > chat w/ USC legal, I expect that "use" of the software > may not include the aspect of a client that generates aa > query that is sent over the Internet. The software itself > is the recipeitn of that query and the folks running that > server may be said to use it. RIRs seem to make a fine > home, since they are not commercial entities... Right? RIRs are a fine home for the server(s), yes (that's one of the reasons why the RIPE members contribute to the RIPE NCC after all), but the RAToolset/IRRToolset software includes tools such as roe(1), the Route Object Editor, and aoe(1), the AS Object Editor. These are clients that contact a IRR server. The IRR server is (usually) running at a RIR, but the clients are not. And yet, the client software has that Naughty Copyright Notice attached to ALL of its source files (and manual page). Like I said, most (techie) people don't give a hoot, but legal departments at largish outfits can seriously halt Progress(tm). Although RIPE and the RIPE NCC are non-profit organisations, most of the members are most definitely out to make a (euro-)buck. It's only proper that if these tools are to be hosted/provided/maintained by the RIPE NCC, that the restrictive license is removed. Replacing it with a RIPE/RIPE NCC copyright may make non-RIPE members nervous, so I still think a GNU-like license is the safest and fairest option. Cheers, Steven
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