Fwd: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Licensing guidelines suggestions

[Ville Skyttä]

Hello fab-list,

Below is some discussion about Fedora licensing that took place on 
fedora-packaging to day, perhaps the board could put it on the meeting 
agenda?

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Subject: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Licensing guidelines suggestions
Date: Monday 06 August 2007
From: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com>
To: Discussion of RPM packaging standards and practices for Fedora 
<fedora-packaging at redhat.com>


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.