On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 12:03:01PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 11:54 AM David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 02:12:04PM +0200, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to package lprint https://github.com/michaelrsweet/lprint
>which has Apache Software License 2.0 with exceptions for GPLv2 and LGPLv2.
>
>CUPS has a similar license and it was marked as fine for Fedora in this
>thread [1] .
>
>Unfortunately, there isn't a valid short name for 'ASL 2.0 with
>exceptions' at [2] - would it be possible to add the short name into the
>table or should I just use simple 'ASL 2.0'?
>
>Thank you in advance and have a nice day,
>
>Zdenek
>
>
>[1]
>https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/TYGLR34XR6L6MAXMVSDNYT3ZYXUKY7FX/#NEQDL6V4RBRQTPI3YYBSZH5CTZG257F2
>
>[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
The interesting thing to me here is that LLVM carries this license and
exception. It uses the Apache 2.0 license with a GPLv2 exception. But the
llvm package in Fedora says 'NCSA' for the License tag.
I think the llvm package might be wrong in Fedora.
LLVM was formerly licensed, or mostly licensed, under the NCSA
license. As of some recent version it switched to the Apache License
2.0 plus that exception.
Going with SPDX syntax, the way they define Apache 2.0 with the GPLv2
exception (as given as an example in llvm) is:
Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
https://spdx.org/licenses/LLVM-exception.html
To fit the Fedora naming syntax, we probably need "ASL 2.0 with exceptions"
added to the list of approved licenses.
Or perhaps using the SPDX notation instead, at least for the exception part?
I think the SPDX notation is clear here. Might be a good time to update the
licensing guidelines for packages to allow packag maintainers to use an SPDX
expression in the License file if they want to and if the licenses for the
package can be expressed using SPDX data.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelines/
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David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT
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