On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:19 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The licensing wiki says that the IEEE license is a “good” documentation > license. However, with the 2017 release, IEEE switched to this license: > > | The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, > | have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation. > | > | In the following statement, the phrase ``this text'' refers to portions of > | the system documentation. > | > | Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in > | the Linux man-pages project, from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for > | Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The > | Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 > | by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open > | Group. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the > | original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open > | Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be > | obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . > | > | This notice shall appear on any product containing this material. > > <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix/man-pages-posix-2017-a.tar.gz> > > This license no longer permits modified redistribution, as far as I can > see. Is this still an acceptable documentation license as far as Fedora > is concerned? I think this should not be considered an acceptable license for documentation, given the differences from the version reproduced in the Fedora wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:IEEEDocLicense). Copying Joshua Gay for awareness. 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
