Re: Additional SPDX questions for .NET 7 (dotnet7.0)

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Hi,

Omair Majid <omajid@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As far as I can tell, these are the remaining licensing questions before
> we are ready to include .NET 7 in Fedora:
>
> 1. How to define the MS Patent Promise [1] in Fedora?
>
>    The discussion is continuing at
>    https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/103 but
>    there hasn't been much movement recently.
>
> 2. What to do about code that uses from StackOverflow?
>
>    It seems like someone just needs to craft the wording for an exception
>    and add it to the CC licenses in Fedora? More at
>    https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/104

Both issues above have now been resolved. Thanks, everyone!

> 3. What to do about the following licenses:
>
>    https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/System.Text.RegularExpressions/tests/FunctionalTests/AttRegexTests.cs
>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#HP_Variant
>
>    Both seem look like variants of MIT [2][3]. As folks in this thread
>    have helped me understand, MIT is a category under SPDX, not a single
>    license. Neither of these are part of the MIT SPDX identifier yet. Is
>    it okay to use them under the 'MIT' identifier in Fedora while they
>    are still being worked on the SPDX and fedora-license-data side?

There's still no progress here, but I am going to run with using the MIT
identifier for .NET, even if this exact license texts aren't in
fedora-license-data, yet.

Omair

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