> CC0 has been listed by Fedora as a 'good' license for code and content > (corresponding to allowed and allowed-content under the new system). > We plan to classify CC0 as allowed-content only, so that CC0 would no > longer be allowed for code. This is a fairly unusual change and may > have an impact on a nontrivial number of Fedora packages (that is not > clear to me right now), and we may grant a carveout for existing > packages that include CC0-covered code. While we are moving towards a > process in which license approvals are going to be done primarily > through the Fedora license data repository on gitlab.com, I wanted to > note this on the mailing list because of the significance of the > change. > Hi! I was made aware of this change just today. Given that this is a "significant" change, would it be possible to announce this more widely / publicly than the rather obscure "legal" mailing list? We already have a not insignificant number of packages in Fedora that are licensed CC0. For example, it's not really a "popular" license for Rust projects, but we have 22 of them that are licensed CC0: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+r:src.fedoraproject.org+file:rust-.*%5C.spec%24+%5ELicense:+CC0%24&patternType=regexp&case=yes Should we attempt to inform upstream projects that their code is, going forward, not going to be considered "FOSS" unless they relicense? What will happen if a project that we have in Fedora today grows a dependency on something that's still CC0-licensed? Will that block us from updating that software until the affected project is re-licensed? Who will convince projects that this is necessary? Where is publicly visible announcement that they could be pointed to? (And no, a mailing list post doesn't count.) As it is, I consider this change a serious roadblock for getting up-to-date software (including security fixes) to users. Fabio _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
