* Richard Fontana: > In response to this thread I added the 2017 IEEE license to the Fedora > License Data repository a few weeks ago giving it "not-allowed" > status: > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/main/data/LicenseRef-IEEE-2017.toml Sorry, I had missed that. > So as to what to do, > >> Should we remove content that uses this updated IEEE license from Fedora? > > The assumption here is that this covers some material in man pages and > that man pages are properly classified as 'documentation'. > > So, I think the options are: > > * Remove whatever is covered by the updatd IEEE license from Fedora Filed: man-pages: Contains contents under a not-allowed license <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116859> > * try to convince IEEE to change the license (given that IEEE had an > acceptable license in the past this seemed like a possibility) > * someone can argue that a special usage exception should be applied > to some uses of this license > * someone can argue that classifying this license as 'not-allowed' is > wrong under current policy > * someone can argue that the current policy should be changed Many of the manual pages are redundant with the community-maintained ones. Another option could be to fill the gaps instead. 8-) Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ 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
