On Monday 06 August 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:05 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here's a few notes/questions that IMO need to be addressed in the new
> licensing guidelines in Wiki. IANAL, etc, but anyway, something for near
> future FPC meetings (which I still probably won't be able to attend to
> for a couple of weeks):
>
> 1) The licensing pages strongly imply that OSI-approved licenses are ok.
> However for example the original Artistic license is OSI-approved but
> listed in Wiki page as "bad". Something needs real fixing - "ask
> upstream to move to a "good" Artistic license" is IMO just a band
aid.
>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
>
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
I think we're going to need the Fedora Board to decide this. Its a
little outside of our jurisdiction, unfortunately.
Ok, I'll forward the question to fab-list, hopefully they'll pick this up.
[...]
> 3) Source licenses are not the only thing that affect the
distributables'
> copyrights. For example when something is built from let's say LGPLv2+
> sources but linked with a GPLv2+ library, the resulting binary will be
> GPLv2+, while the sources are still LGPLv2+ (unless their embedded
> copyright notices are changed to GPLv2+, but that can't be done for many
> *GPL licenses).
(Meant to say "... but that can't be done for many non-*GPL licenses.")
> Suggested combined fix for 2) and 3) above: change the
licensing
> guidelines to prominently note something like that the value of the
> License tag represents the copyright/license info of binary packages
> only, and only when built in the configuration specified by the Fedora
> build system, build
> dependencies/conflicts in the specfile, and no non-Fedora software
> installed that will affect the build in any way. Source rpms' copyrights
> are determined by the sources and other content included in them.
This seems fine to me. I'll work on drafting a change for vote.
Thanks. You can count me as +1 if the exact text to be voted on won't differ
drastically from the above.