On 12/31/2017 04:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > Should Fedora distribute content under the Ocaml documentation license? > > The license says: > > “ > The present documentation is copyright © 2013 Institut National de > Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The OCaml > documentation and user’s manual may be reproduced and distributed in > whole or in part, subject to the following conditions: > > • The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be > preserved complete on all complete or partial copies. > • Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml documentation and > user’s manual must be approved by the authors in writing before > distribution. > • If you distribute the OCaml documentation and user’s manual in part, > instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be > included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided. > • Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or > quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation > is given. > ” > > For program source code, this would clearly not be allowed because > derivative works are not permitted. Are such restrictions permitted for > documentation licenses in Fedora? No. The restrictions upon modification make this non-free, and we have never permitted non-free documentation in Fedora. ~tom _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
