https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1609221 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED CC| |tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx Resolution|--- |NOTABUG Last Closed| |2018-07-30 13:02:28 --- Comment #1 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Dave, Fedora uses this list of "Good Licenses": https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses You will note that Public Domain is on that list. You are also correct that the OSI list does not include Public Domain. Why the difference? Public Domain is not really a license, and the OSI list only lists licenses. When a work is in the Public Domain, it is because either the Copyright has expired or the original copyright holder has abandoned their copyright on the work. When a work is in the Public Domain, it may be used by anyone in any way that they wish. (It is actually way more complicated than that, but for our purposes, this is correct.) Becuase PD works have no copyright, they cannot have a copyright license. But, this is not a problem for Fedora (or anyone else), because no license is necessary to have all of the freedoms covered in the Open Source Definition for PD works. This means that while perl-DBIx-Simple is not technically under an Open Source License, this is only because it is not under _any_ license, because it is not copyrighted at all, and that state is Open Source compatible. Hope that helps. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ perl-devel mailing list -- perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to perl-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/N2BQXS5K5SNHVATXP7PYWOWBV45E5YIP/
