Well, I'm glad that you're reconsidering it. With my FESCo hat, I consider this a question that belongs to Legal Team and technical committees aka FESCo and FPC. Council could coordinate it as it involves multiple bodies. My personal opinion about standardizing licensing nomemclature accross FOSS actors (e.g SUSE [1]) is something we should encourage. Especially regarding efforts with cross-platform desktop apps packages (flatpak), and standardizing app metadata (FreeDesktop AppData specification uses SPDX [2]), both being projects where Fedora Desktop Team is involved. Benefits may be low, but cost of doing it is quite low itself. If we were to decide switching to SPDX, actions plan would be: 1. update licensing guidelines (FPC + Fedora Legal) 2. schedule the change + announcement (FESCo) 3. execute the change (packagers + provenpackagers), As we have already standardized our licensing nomenclature, it would easily automatable (update git but not necessarily with rebuild). Ideally, it should happen in rawhide before a mass rebuild. It would also help to detect in the next cycle packages, that did not get a rebuild and are potentially unmaintained. Yes, it would be a side effect but a positive one, I guess. Regards, H. [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines [2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
