Re: Important changes to software license information in Fedora packages (SPDX and more!)

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On 22/07/29 11:19AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> New docs site for licensing and other legal topics
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> All documentation related to Fedora licensing has moved to a new
> section in Fedora Docs, which you can find at:
> 
>   https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/
<snip>
> Fedora license information in a structured format
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> The “good” (allowed) and “bad” (not-allowed) licenses for Fedora are
> now stored in a repository, using a simple structured file format for
> each license (it’s TOML). You can find this at:
>   
>   https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data
> 
> This data is then presented in easy tabular format in the
> documentation, at:

As part of this change, the data on which licenses are GPL-compatible
seems to have been removed. Other projects were relying on
this (e.g. [1]). Are there any plans to add it back?

[1]: https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview/blob/main/collection_requirements.rst#id5

-- 
Thanks,

Maxwell G (@gotmax23)
Pronouns: He/Him/His

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