Re: Guidelines for dealing with licensing issues in distributed packages

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 9:29 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 1/3/23 12:39 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:

> > Separately, but related to Florian's question, I think we should make
> > clear in documentation (if we don't already) that fedora-license-data
> > is not intended to deal with questions about license compliance,
> > except to the extent that impossibility or impracticality of
> > compliance with a license may be a reason for concluding that it is
> > not allowed.
>
> not sure where to put that or what exactly to say... did you have an idea?
> as a threshold question, should that note go in the license-data repo
> itself or the Fedora-legal documentation?

I think it should go in the legal documentation. The issue is really
the nonsuitability of the fedora-license-data issue tracker for
handling compliance questions.
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