Re: About Linux Documentation Project License

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On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 03:00 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> In the review of rubygem-ncursesw (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597709)
> I noticed that some example files are licensed under "Linux Documentation Project License":
> 
> http://tldp.org/COPYRIGHT.html
> 
> I would appreciate it if it is investigated if this license is acceptable for Fedora
> or not.

I would describe it as a free copyleft license, where a requirement to
provide the source form can be added in derivative works.  (Note that
the parts that are only requests can be ignored.)  I expect it to be
fine for Fedora, but I'm not the one to actually make the decision.

-- 
Matt

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