John Dennis wrote:
I sent this question to our non-lawyer license guru, Tom Callaway who watches over licensing issues for Fedora. This is Tom's response.
Thanks. My $0.02: The files are copyrightable, as they contain more than just a collection of facts. Many of the dictionary ATTRIBUTE and VALUE names are *not* mandated by any specification, and are instead chosen by us. Similarly, the comments in the files are not mandated by spec, as are the additional flags on attributes. The reason this came up is I had off-list conversations with people who copied the files, and then said "there was no copyright", and "we didn't know they came from freeradius". It took me all of 3 minutes to find implementation-specific text in the files which *I* wrote. So... adding copyright and license stops idiots like that. I'm OK with the CC-BY-SA license. It seems to fit the approach of the rest of the server. Alan DeKok.