On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:36:15AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to > build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open > source software. In accordance with that, all packages included in > Fedora must be covered under an approved license. The Fedora approved > license list is generated from the [[link OSI]] and [[link FSF]] lists, > but since those lists conflict with each other, only licenses explicitly > listed here are approved for use in Fedora. BTW who decides on adding new licenses to this list, the board? I'm asking because sometimes, especially in the natural sciences field, authors have been creative in this area, and while most licenses are indeed free, they need to be thrown at someone to approve them. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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