Re: Fwd: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Licensing guidelines suggestions

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Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

And to answer my own question, I think the answer is no.

Why?
1. OSI doesn't list licenses which don't meet their criteria, the FSF
does.

On the other hand they haven't yet listed all the known Free software licenses like you did but they have previously been open to that. You might want to followup on that.

2. The FSF has been extremely helpful in working with us on licensing
matters. I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt on licensing
conflicts.

Agreed but then relying on FSF would mean that you are effectively dropping the OSI requirement which is what I suggested earlier. Relying on our own list is more safe if FSF acts up or FSF agrees on a license that Red Hat Legal doesn't want to deal with ever.

Rahul

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