On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:19 AM Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:
The licensing wiki says that the IEEE license is a “good” documentation license. However, with the 2017 release, IEEE switched to this license:
| The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, | have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation. | | In the following statement, the phrase ``this text'' refers to portions of | the system documentation. | | Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in | the Linux man-pages project, from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for | Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The | Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 | by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open | Group. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the | original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open | Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be | obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . | | This notice shall appear on any product containing this material.
This license no longer permits modified redistribution, as far as I can see. Is this still an acceptable documentation license as far as Fedora is concerned?
I think this should not be considered an acceptable license for documentation, given the differences from the version reproduced in the Fedora wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:IEEEDocLicense).
Copying Joshua Gay for awareness.
Richard