On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 12:23 AM Richard Fontana rfontana@redhat.com wrote:
The intent is for this change not to cause significant hardship or disruption for Fedora contributors and users. We will probably need to grant some time-based or case-specific exceptions. I think though that we should avoid allowing any new packages with CC0-covered code.
I suspect (although we will not actually know for some time) that upstreams that used CC0 will be willing to (at least) consider a change of license once the concerns in the greater FOSS community are communicated to them.
Realistically, we may also want to continue to allow CC0 covered code for a short period of time for new packages that are just getting into Fedora until some percolating has happened in those upstream communities (with the requirement that the packager inform the upstream about the need for a license change moving forward, and the removal after some period of time?). The question, therefore, is time-frame for no more new pacakges (F38?) and when existing packages (without an approved exception) must be removed (F41?). Those are, of course, totally made up targets, but we need some straw dates to see what the push-back will be in the real world.