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

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 20:48 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 
> > The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to
> > build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open
> > source software. In accordance with that, all packages included in
> > Fedora must be covered under an approved license. The Fedora approved
> > license list is generated from the [[link OSI]] and [[link FSF]] lists,
> > but since those lists conflict with each other, only licenses explicitly
> > listed here are approved for use in Fedora.
> 
> My suggestion is similar with some minor changes:
> 
> The goal of the Fedora Project is to to create a complete, general 
> purpose operating system based on Linux exclusively from Free and open 
> source software.
> 
> All software in Fedora must be under licenses in the Fedora licensing 
> list [Link]. This list is based on the licenses approved by FSF [Link], 
> OSI [Link] and consulting Red Hat Legal.

This wording is ok with me, but I'd like the board to approve it.

~spot