What is licenses.md and if it's Fedora-specific why is it bothering to track whether something is FSFLibre or OSI-approved? As we explain in Fedora legal documentation, Fedora license allowability is not dependent on either FSF or OSI approval or opinion. Richard On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 2:14 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Jerry, > > Good catch! I think what may have happened is that OFL-1.1 was on the > Fedora allowed-fonts list for some time and mapped to SPDX. But more > recently, SPDX added the additional identifiers related to reserved font > names to capture when that is explicitly triggered or not. > > So, it's a matter of Fedora now reviewing those explicit scenarios and > adding those ids to the data. I've added an issue to this end here: > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/81 > > Could you add the package name in that issue for reference? > > Thanks! > Jilayne > > > > On 10/17/22 11:41 AM, Jerry James wrote: > > I just ran rpmlint over a package under the OFL-1.1-RFN license, with > > the rpmlint-fedora-license-data package installed. I got "W: > > invalid-license OFL-1.1-RFN". I undertook a search on the allowed [1] > > and not allowed [2] license pages. Only "OFL-1.1" appears anywhere, > > under the "All licenses" section of [1]. (And, faithfully reproducing > > this, "OFL-1.1" is the only OFL* license that appears in the > > rpmlint-fedora-license-data package.) > > > > The underlying license data [3] from which [1] and [2] are generated > > lists all of OFL-1.0, OFL-1.0-RFN, OFL-1.0-no-RFN, OFL-1.1, > > OFL-1.1-RFN, and OFL-1.1-no-RFN. Why aren't the other licenses > > showing up on [1] and in rpmlint-fedora-license-data? Is it because > > "OFL-1.1" is the only one of the six that has a "Y" in both the "OSI?" > > and "FSFLibre?" columns of licenses.md? If so, what does that imply > > about the status of the other 5 licenses for Fedora? > > > > References: > > [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/ > > [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/not-allowed-licenses/ > > [3] https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
