legal April 2025

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Sleepycat license with SaaS restriction
by Florian Weimer 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

cryptlib is licensed under the Sleepycat license with a SaaS restriction: “Note that decoupling the software from the user, for example by running in a SaaS configuration, does not exempt you from these requirements.” (Full text attached.) This was not part of the original Sleepycat license, so a new license tag is required. Maybe this license is not even free; this additional clause seems to be a restriction on use. But perhaps it is not so different from the AGPL. Thanks, Florian

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license-validate and LicenseRef-Callaway
by Sérgio Basto 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

Hi, why LicenseRef-Callaway-CC-BY-SA, LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD , LicenseRef-Callaway-MIT , LicenseRef-Callaway-OFL are not valid for license-validate command anh what is need to validate marker ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2362370#c2 ) ? Thank you -- Sérgio M. B.

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Restrictions by country of residence
by Benson Muite 26 Apr '25

26 Apr '25

Fedora has a code of conduct which begins: "In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as the Fedora community pledge to collaborate in a respectful and constructive manner, and welcome everyone willing to join us in that pledge. We welcome individuals regardless of ability, age, background, body size, education, ethnicity, family status, gender identity and expression, geographic location, level of experience, marital status, nationality, national origin, native language, personal appearance, race and/or ethnicity, religion, sexual identity and orientation, socioeconomic status, or any other dimension of diversity." However, Fedora is also sponsored by companies domiciled in the USA: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/export/ If these policies should be in conflict, which one supersedes the other?

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