#57: Seeking Council feedback/input on draft third party software policy -------------------------+--------------------- Reporter: pfrields | Owner: Status: new | Priority: normal Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: workstation | -------------------------+--------------------- Comment (by rhughes): Replying to [comment:19 mattdm]: > The use of SPDX resources for license tags is an example; they mean something different than Fedora does when we use "License: MIT". Okay, this might be a concrete issue. The AppStream specification explicitly specifies SPDX (and is shipped in AppStream and specified by AppData files) as it's designed to be used by multiple distributions and has already been adopted natively by both Debian and Suse. Being blunt, although Fedora did a lot of "picking apart" of the license issues back in the day, we can't base a freedesktop spec on the specific wording of how Fedora Legal interprets specific parts of a license text. If SPDX and Fedora disagree on the meaning of MIT we should probably fix that. Upstream is now specifying the license as an SPDX string in the AppData file, and we're showing that in preference to the license specified in the spec file. If that needs to change then we're going to need pages like https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0 specifically for Fedora license IDs, and we're also going to need an explicit grammar for the License: line in the spec file -- at the moment lots of packages are just specifying case- incorrect text not designed for machine reading. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/57#comment:21> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
