This is actually slightly unclear because what the maintainer seems to have been done (at quick glance) is (1) replace the Apache License 2.0 with a "No known copyright" statement in a LICENSE file (containing no other text) and (2) simultaneously replace "MIT/Apache-2.0" with "CC-PDDC" in the Cargo.toml file. CC-PDDC actually contemplates being used by either a 'Dedicator' or a 'Certifier' and you could sort of see the "No known copyright" statement as being in line with being a "Certifier", but I assume the maintainer is the author and saw themselves as a 'Dedicator'. I assume that there are no other authors or all authors have agreed to this change. (Ideally, someone would look into that, but it's generally impractical to do so.) Anyway, it's clear that this is okay for Fedora despite the ambiguity and under the Callaway notation system would presumably be designated as "Public Domain" in the license tag. With the future switch to SPDX identifiers, I'm not sure how we'd want to deal with this in the license tag. I'd probably say it's reasonable to have the license tag say CC-PDDC (assuming that gets added to the Fedora allowed license list). One side comment on CC0: We probably want to reclassify CC0 as not allowed for code by default because of the "no patent rights are granted" clause, an issue not present in CC-PDDC. This may require granting exceptions to existing packages that are using CC0 for code. Jilayne and I were recently discussing the possible need for either an "allowed-conditional" status or a process for giving specific packages exceptions that allow them to include code/content under non-allowed licenses. I may raise that topic in a separate thread. Richard On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:24 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Michel, > > > On 6/28/22 1:49 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim 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 > > side note, but I must say that the change seems to come out of no where and they did not include a copy of the CC-PDDC in the repo, which is also odd. I hope there is only the one author of this code! > > 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? > > Given we are on the eave (ish) of adopting SPDX identifiers and "Public Domain" represents a Fedora category which will later need to be manually reviewed to be updated to an SPDX id... I'd say it'd be preferable to review the CC-PDDC as to whether it should be allowed for Fedora based and then, if so, then add it to the Fedora allowed list and use the SPDX id :) > > I'll give my two cents on that: given that it's a public domain dedication and also that CC0-1.0 is already allowed (which this pre-dated), I would say it meets the free/open criteria for Fedora and should be allowed for use in Fedora. > > Richard - you wanna chime in? > > Jilayne > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
