On Apr 21, 2006, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do we have an idea of what we would need to drop to be completely free > software definition compliant? Probably very little. Although there are differences between the OSD and the FSD, I'm not aware of any licenses that actually exercise them. So if we're already compliant with our own policies, we shouldn't have to drop anything at all. Now if we aren't... Say, proprietary firmwares pretending to be legitimate source files inside the kernel, or in other firmware packages that the packaging guidelines might approve even though they are not free software. > What would we lose? Nothing compared with what we'd gain. > I guess a few rpm queries on license should work. That's not quite enough. There are a number of packages whose license says Distributable, which isn't entirely clear on the licensing terms. Also, there's the issue of how much you trust the License field in every one of the thousands of spec files in Fedora Core and Extras. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Secretary for FSF Latin America http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
