Re: Moolticute SPDX update

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On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 9:49 AM Arthur Bols <arthur@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 12/11/2022 03:12, Richard Fontana wrote:

> >>>>        # src/utils/qurltlds_p.h which is MPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR
> >>>> LGPL-2.1-or-later,
> >>> Given the nature of this file, I'd just omit this.
> >> why do you say this?
> > This header file basically just contains a list of domain name
> > suffixes. In a number of cases I can remember over the years Fedora
> > has treated nominal nonfree licenses on analogous kinds of data as not
> > being an obstacle to Fedora packaging. Unlike those other cases, here
> > we don't have to address the issue of whether there is anything
> > actually licensable in this file; the file appears to be
> > self-compliant at least with MPL 2.0 and the licenses indicated here
> > are all Fedora-allowed. But it seems like an appropriate opportunity
> > to slightly simplify the License: field which I'm mindful that Arthur
> > is probably already finding very complex (given that it was previously
> > just "GPLv3").
> >
> > Richard
> That would be appreciated! However, there is the problem that due to my
> limited knowledge about licensing, I cannot defend this choice if
> questions are raised in the future. With that in mind, it might be
> better to include it anyway?

I don't know if it's better but it seems okay to include  it.

Richard
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