On 8/14/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rahul wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: >> Rahul wrote: >>> Tom Callaway wrote: >> >>>> We don't need to analyze Extras for FSF license compliance, IMHO. >> >>> The packaging guidelines changes if any would affect both the >>> repositories and the distribution on the whole includes both. Not >>> sure why you would consider excluding Fedora Extras. >> >> AFAIK, no one has proposed/sugggested so far that Fedora's packaging >> guidelines require FSF license compliance (instead of simply >> opensource.org ) yet. >> > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-April/msg00170.html > > > I have independently done the same to the board. I would like to know if > others support this or not. Offhand, I'd say -1, status-quo is sufficient. My mind isn't set in stone though... I'm just not yet convinced that there would be sufficient tangible benefit to outweigh the (possible) loss of non-FSF-compliant bits.
I would like a FC7 goal of having at least the spec files patched to use the same 'terms' in every License: tag. GPL, Gnu Public License V2, etc makes a job for someone who has to look at these things for a 'site' harder. I would like to have the terms to be standardized a bit more to something like: License: GPL (see COPYING for complete versions) License: Various (see LICENSES for versions and files applied) etc. That way a person can go see that the license(s) is there, what file(s) are it in etc. Having each packager go through that rigamarole might have them think : "Hmmm this code turns out to be CDDL/GPL/SCO combined code. Maybe I should find something else." -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
