Hi Everyone,
Hope you all had a great weekend.
Just following up to see if there has been an official determination on the inclusion of this license in Fedora's accepted license list?
Regards,
Justin
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 2:20 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 4:01 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[JL wrote:]
> >> The only things that caught my attention in the license (other than length and thoroughness) are:
> >> - as per section 2.3(b) the license does not cover any patents over the Content or the Database
> >> I think this is ok, as it's similar to the CC licenses (which are approved) and I don't really see how patents would apply here anyway
> >>
[RF wrote:]
> > But I guess this can be approved specifically as a content license.
> > It's certainly a flawed license and I don't think it meets Fedora's
> > free/open criteria in a more general sense.
[JL wrote:]
> so to quote your recent re-draft, it would go in the bucket of:
>
> 3. Licenses for Content
>
> “Content” means any material that is not code, documentation, fonts or
> binary firmware.
>
> In addition, Fedora may designate a license as good for content if it
> restricts or prohibits modification but otherwise meets the standards
> for good licenses for code.
Yes, but prompted by this license (and your comment on the patent
issue) I'm thinking we should revise that description -- I will reply
to the thread where I posted the draft category descriptions.
Richard
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