Hello,
Could you please take a look at bug 1801519? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801519
The package is golang-github-google-licenseclassifier. It contains the text of a large number of licenses to detect them. Some of these Licenses are good for Fedora, other not. Basically am I allowed to distribute the text of these licenses along my package? What it the license status of the text of the licenses? Is each license covered by itself?
Best regards,
Robert-André
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On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 18:00 +0200, Robert-André Mauchin wrote:
Hello,
Could you please take a look at bug 1801519? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801519
The package is golang-github-google-licenseclassifier. It contains the text of a large number of licenses to detect them. Some of these Licenses are good for Fedora, other not. Basically am I allowed to distribute the text of these licenses along my package? What it the license status of the text of the licenses? Is each license covered by itself?
I don't see the problem. The license texts do not have a license. Or do they? Are we even allowed to talk about them?
Best regards,
Robert-André
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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:00 PM Robert-André Mauchin zebob.m@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Could you please take a look at bug 1801519? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801519
The package is golang-github-google-licenseclassifier. It contains the text of a large number of licenses to detect them. Some of these Licenses are good for Fedora, other not. Basically am I allowed to distribute the text of these licenses along my package?
This should be okay (if these are really all licenses of the sort that we typically encounter in or around FOSS, which seems to be the case).
What it the license status of the text of the licenses? Is each license covered by itself?
In most cases, the license would not be covered by itself. In most of those cases, there won't be any explicit license for the license text. In a few cases (e.g. anything in the GPL family) there will be an explicit license of some sort that would be non-free from Fedora's perspective. Fedora already assumes such material is okay in at least some circumstances, though. I wouldn't worry about it. If it were more than just a single corner case it might be worth clarifying in Fedora's legal guidelines. The issue would arise when packaging any sort of license scanning tool.
Also, the "license of the license" shouldn't be reflected in the License: tag.
Richard
Best regards,
Robert-André
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