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 _______________________________________________ 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
