On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:22 AM Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I want to clarify one thing I am working on. When I have this string in License tag in spec: > > Good License or Bad license > > Then the result is Good license and the package is allowed to be in Fedora, right? So first of all if I change your question to be about the actual underlying license terms of the package as opposed to the representation in the spec file, I believe the answer must be "yes" and there are probably a lot of examples of this in Fedora. (Think of any arbitrary package that says it's under some FOSS license and also says informally that proprietary licenses are also available.) With the spec file, though, I believe there is an inconsistency in how Fedora deals with this, but this is just a casual impression. On the one hand, there is the common case of traditionally-licensed Perl modules (typically, a dual license involving unversioned GPL and a license identified as the Artistic License 1.0 [which I realize exists in multiple forms, but let's ignore that]). Fedora spec files for such Perl module packages generally say something like "GPL or Artistic", even though Fedora classifies the Artistic License as a "bad" license. I *think* there may be other examples, not involving Perl modules or the Artistic License, where the code is dual licensed under a good license and a bad license and the spec file only gives the good license. The only rationale I could come up with for the difference in approach is that the Artistic License, while "bad" from Fedora's perspective, is generally seen as plausibly-FOSS (it's an OSI-approved license, for one thing). I think it comes down to whether Fedora wants to have spec files that say, for example, "GPL or Proprietary" much as it has spec files that say "GPL or Artistic". Richard _______________________________________________ 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
