On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:03 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 7:48 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hey folks, > > > > So I was working through the review of flatpak-kcm[1], where I > > discovered that KDE GitLab CI scripts are currently licensed CC0-1.0. > > > > I'm in the process of making a request to KDE to consider relicensing > > all such code/scripts to MIT, but in the meantime, is it okay for us > > to have CC0-1.0 listed for this specific case? > > This looks like it's a consequence of the upstream project attempting > to conform to the REUSE specification, which requires some form of > explicit SPDX-expression-based licensing of all files in a "Project", > which REUSE's tools seem to interpret as being equivalent to a > repository. That issue has come up already though I am not sure we > documented a resolution. Currently, REUSE recommends that highly > trivial files, files that might be reasonably assumed not to be > copyrightable and so forth, be explicitly placed under CC0. (This > continues to be one of my main gripes with REUSE, not just because CC0 > is not allowed for code in Fedora but also because CC0 is not well > designed for many of the cases that I think REUSE is contemplating it > would be used for to conform to this recommendation, and also because > any application of a conventional license including CC0 gives > credibility to copyright-maximalist arguments. I'm currently pondering > an approach that would recommend use of a LicenseRef- designed for > these cases, as in some other respects REUSE has some appealing > features.) > > One point about the Bugzilla: "CC0-1.0" does not need to be mentioned > in the license tag because it only covers files that are included in > the source RPM. Nevertheless, an exception is required because all > Fedora-packaged material must be under Fedora-allowed licenses or be > covered by an exception. > > Anyway, I have previously thought that we should have a blanket > exception for uses of CC0 that result entirely from upstream attempts > to make repositories REUSE-conformant. > This would be highly appreciated! The discussion upstream isn't exactly going to be easy, so a quick resolution for now would unblock flatpak-kcm and other KDE software stuff. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
