Legality of Fedora in production environment
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Mon May 14 16:57:06 UTC 2007
Mamoru Tasaka writes:
> In this case we must make it sure that the translated license can
> be accepted on Fedora. Actually I have one software which I want to
> submit into Fedora, of which the license is written completely in
> Japanese. I asked the developer (, who is Japanese) some questions
> about the license, then translated into English, sent to Callaway,
> and he asked FSF about my translated license. And we (Callaway and
> me) are waiting the reply from FSF from more than one month.....
Well, that's hardly surprising: it's not the FSF's mission to review
other people's licences. Is it really quite impossible to relicense
this package using one of the well-known free licences?
Andrew.
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