Re: License clarification: is CC-PDDC just "Public Domain"?

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Hey all,

Since Creative Commons licenses are already coming up, how is the Creative Commons IGO license family classified in Fedora?

I didn't notice these licenses in the Licenses wiki page. They are distinctly different from other Creative Commons licenses and to the best of my knowledge, they are not superseded by the 4.0 family of Creative Commons licenses. I mention it here because if we are looking at other Creative Commons license families, it would be good to clarify how Fedora views the IGO family too. For context, some UN agencies are considering the IGO family of licenses as a default open source license for work created by public servants, so it isn't impossible to see CC IGO content working its way into Fedora at some point.

The key distinction made in the IGO licenses from other CC licenses is around mediation and arbitration for resolving legal disputes.

* https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
* https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
* https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo/
* https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/

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------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 at 15:49, Michel Alexandre Salim <michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Dear all,
> 

> During the review of rust-pwd (needed as a new dependency for rust-nu-
> path):
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101580
> 

> it came to light that the upstream Rust crate declares the license to
> be CC-PDDC: https://spdx.org/licenses/preview/CC-PDDC.html
> 

> The change itself happened after the previous patch release (1.3.0) and
> is released in the latest 1.3.1:
> 

> https://gitlab.com/pwoolcoc/pwd/-/commit/8375b41379c6f7b2a3b7a675d6b892b27faa44fd
> 

> Two questions here:
> - can we treat CC-PDDC as basically Public Domain, which is approved by
> Fedora per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
> - if not, can we use the Git commit history to assume that the intent
> is to make this public domain?
> 

> Thanks,
> 

> --
> Michel Alexandre Salim
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