Re: Guidelines for dealing with licensing issues in distributed packages

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On 1/2/23 10:57 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 3:19 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
* Jilayne Lovejoy:

On 12/19/22 3:10 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
Dne 19. 12. 22 v 12:18 Florian Weimer napsal(a):
* Fedora and its distributors comply with the licensing terms, but the
    license is not obviously on Fedora's allowed list.  An example would
    be an obscure field-of-use restriction (as in the JSON license).
Create an issue in https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/

And the license may be added to not-allowed list. See
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=all&label_name%5B%5D=license%3A%3Anot%20allowed&first_page_size=20

And in that issue you can discuss what to do with the package if it
already in Fedora Linux.
the process for license review is outlined at this particular link:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-review-process/

:)
Thanks.  I'll keep filing fedora-license-data issues until told
otherwise.
I think we can make that documentation a little clearer that the
license review process can be initiated by any interested Fedora
contributor (not just actual/intended package maintainers), for
existing as well as proposed new Fedora packages. What we don't want
is for it to be used for substantially non-Fedora-related purposes
(e.g. a license for which review is sought should demonstrably exist
in an existing Fedora package or a project that (but for any license
issues) seems likely to be included in Fedora).

Richard

I just had a re-read and it doesn't say anything specific to "package maintainers" but I think uses "Fedora contributors" initially, which should cover your point.  I think it's clear it should be for a package included in Fedora, but we don't have an explicit statement to NOT use it for non-Fedora related purposes - do you think we should add that?

I did fix a bit of formatting just now, though :)

J.
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