[Fedora-legal-list] CeCILL licenses

[Michel Salim]

Hello,

Upstream for a package I just submitted for review, Scheme2Js
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487938) has indicated
that the license is switching from GPL+ to CeCILL-C (v2):

http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html

CeCILL itself is free and GPL-compatible, and is FSF-approved, though
there's no clarification about whether this is GPLv2 or GPLv3:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses

CeCILL-C (component) is claimed to be LGPL-compatible, though I'm not
sure if FSF approves it as well, or just the main CeCILL license (and
again, version 2, 3 or both).

CeCILL-B (BSD) is like the BSD license with advertising, which I guess
rules it out from Fedora.

Could the legal team look into this? The license is INRIA-originated,
so it's possible that in the future, more INRIA software (such as
Bigloo, already in Fedora) might switch over.

Thanks,

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