Hello, I have several questions about possible redistribution of specific ported z/OS tools-- curl and OpenSSL. After downloading and installing these, I think I have found the licenses for these two, but would like Rocket to confirm if these are correct. I would also like to ask if Rocket adds any additional licenses on top of these, as the above post seems to suggest. The above post is a bit dated so I wanted to check if that has changed. Does all software under Rocket Open-Source Languages and Tools for z/OS still fall under a GPL license?
From the download of OpenSSL and following some links, it appears that this/these licenses apply: "dual OpenSSL and SSLeay license". Can you confirm this?
From the download of curl, and again following some links, it appears that this license applies: "MIT license". Can you confirm this?
Thank you very much in advance!
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Gary McAfee
Senior Software Engineer
IBM Global Services
RTP NC United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-08-2016 10:37
From: Peter Fandel
Subject: Licenses, Terms & Conditions
Each z/OS Open Source Language and Tool comes with some manner of open source license. Most, but not all, are licensed under GPL, the GNU General Public License. The license document for each distribution can be found in this location:
share/doc/<toolName>/
If you need to read the license for a particular language or tool without downloading and unpacking it, then you must go to the public community pages for that language or tool. The license document included with our distributions is (by law) identical to the license you will find in the public pages.
Rocket adds the following additional terms and conditions in the following README file which can be found at the root level of the distribution.
Rocket Ported Tools for z/OS ("Program")==============================================================================See more detailed information in directory share/doc/<toolName>/==============================================================================NOTICES AND INFORMATIONTo the extent that a Rocket ported tool is subject to the GNU General Public License (GPL) or other open source license that requires source code distribution, Rocket provides human-readable source code available for download from the Rocket Software Community Portal.==============================================================================