On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 7:05 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:10:41PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > > > On the topic of FPCA improvements, it would probably make sense (if > > > the FPCA is retained) to replace the MIT license as the default code > > > license with MIT No Attribution, aka MIT-0, recently approved by the > > > OSI as an open source license: > > > https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT-0 > > > (which would also enable a minor simplification of the FPCA text). > > > > > > > I would personally prefer we didn't. That has the knock-on effect of > > making it possible for RHEL folks to not include Fedora changelogs > > when they fork Fedora for RHEL, since the RPM changelogs are the only > > attribution we actually *have* in the distribution. And I've > > personally experienced very positive reinforcement for contributing to > > Fedora and CentOS Stream by pointing to public attribution via changelogs. > > > I agree with Neal here as a deep gut reaction. Recognition is important, > even if it is buried pretty deeply from endusers. > > That said, uh, we trim changelogs, so if we're arguing that that's the > attribution part, we have some digging through git history to do to repair > that. > Red Hat is going to have to fix *a lot* of the process around Fedora->RHEL/CentOS if we're going to rely on Git history for attribution. Especially if rpmautospec gets broader adoption. I was personally pretty upset about how the c9s branches were forked from Fedora Linux 34, where all the Fedora history was *gone*. I know that it's still there in the internal RHEL Dist-Git, but the fact they didn't push that for CentOS Stream irritated me. As it is right now, the fact that changelogs are part of the spec file means that history largely carries over from Fedora to RHEL/CentOS in some form. Once that's gone though, that's a license violation, since generated changelogs will lack complete attribution. As for Fedora changelog trimming, we generally *don't* in the spec file itself, only in the built packages. So the SRPMs have the complete history (or are supposed to, at least). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
