On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:08:26PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > I'm wondering what you guys think about changing the tilt of Fedora from > > open source to free software. Namely, saying that the license should > > meet the free software definition ( > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ) and then mentioning that > > OSI-certified licenses (with the exception of the Reciprocal Public > > License, which we're going to reevaluate) are a good list, as well as > > the free software licenses that are listed on the FSF website. > > > > The goal is to make Fedora a distribution that the FSF can positively > > endorse. I think we're really close. Any reason to not try to go all > > the way? > > Do we have an idea of what we would need to drop to be completely free > software definition compliant? > > What would we lose? > > I guess a few rpm queries on license should work. > what licenses are we looking for? At a glance of Core -devel, the following packages don't have licenses that are explicitly on the FSF's list: tog-pegasus Open Group Pegasus Open Source (motif) tog-pegasus-devel Open Group Pegasus Open Source openmotif Open Group Public License openmotif-devel Open Group Public License xorg-x11-proto-devel The Open Group License xorg-x11-util-macros The Open Group License jdepend Clarkware License jdepend-demo Clarkware License jdepend-javadoc Clarkware License adaptx Exolab Software License adaptx-doc Exolab Software License adaptx-javadoc Exolab Software License castor Exolab Software License castor-demo Exolab Software License castor-doc Exolab Software License castor-javadoc Exolab Software License castor-test Exolab Software License castor-xml Exolab Software License latex2html Free To Use But Restricted (See LICENSE) tanukiwrapper Tanuki Software License (open source) tanukiwrapper-demo Tanuki Software License (open source) tanukiwrapper-javadoc Tanuki Software License (open source) tanukiwrapper-manual Tanuki Software License (open source) libc-client University of Washington Free-Fork License libc-client-devel University of Washington Free-Fork License xdoclet XDoclet Open Source Licence xdoclet-javadoc XDoclet Open Source Licence xdoclet-manual XDoclet Open Source Licence For that matter, none of these are on the OSI's list either explicitly. Then there's all of the "distributable" License tags, and the packages marked "various". So yes, close, but not a done deal. Thanks, Matt
