Re: [Fedora-packaging] Re: Re: other licensing guidance

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 3:37 AM Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm slightly surprised that you decided to hide the unapproved license part
> "Artistic-1.0-Perl" from "GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl" expression.
>
> I understand it makes the License tag more comprehensible.
>
> On the other hand, I worry it will complicate merging user-supplied patches
> back to upstreams. Because users contributing to Fedora will see only GPL,
> hence they will understand their patches are GPL. But then upstream will assume
> or insisit on the full "GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl" combination.
> The will make a friction because Fedora maintainers will need to renegotiate
> a license of the patch with the patch author to get the "OR Artistic-1.0-Perl"
> part back. (Though I admin this case quite theoritical. I haven't seen many
> patches from Fedora users. Fedora-origin patches are usually authored by
> Fedora maintainers.)
>
> Does hiding the unapproved licenses from a License tag also influnce which
> license files are packaged with %license macro? Should we because of that
> start removing Artistic-1.0-Perl texts from Perl packages?

OK, after some deliberation, we've decided to give an exception to
packages containing Perl code that use the Perl 5 GPL|Artistic dual
license. These packages can continue to represent the dual license in
the License: field.

It is possible that a similar exception might be granted in the future
in some comparable case involving some other dual license and some
other community, but I have a feeling there isn't any.

> > Note that we have an open issue to reassess the various pre-Artistic
> > 2.0 versions of the Artistic License.
> >
> I can see <https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/37>.
> I wasn't aware about it. Allowing Artistic-1.0-Perl would palliate the above
> mentioned worry.

As for this, though, and again after much deliberation, we've decided
to keep the status of Artistic-1.0-Perl as not-allowed.

Richard
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