FS/OSS license: not quite enough of a requirement

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Mon May 14 02:24:57 UTC 2007


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:41 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps it would make sense to also add a note explaining that Fedora
>> is committed to not distributing [non-firmware] software in such a way
>> that the software wouldn't abide by these definitions, from the point
>> of view of the recipients.  E.g. software licensed under a Free
>> Software license but without corresponding sources.  If the reader
>> finds deviations s/he should report them.
> 
> Or perhaps, more simply, that all software [non-firmware] in Fedora must
> include source code.
> 

... and be reproducible from that source code by anyone.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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