Re: Request for adding licenses from Vim into allowed licenses

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On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 11:09 AM Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 7:42 AM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Open Publication License, v1.0 or later - see
> > > http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/
> >
> > Ignoring the 'or later' issue, this license (SPDX: OPUBL-1.0) is
> > generally classified as "not allowed" with a usage note that says
> > it is allowed for documentation "if the copyright holder does not
> > exercise any of the “LICENSE OPTIONS” listed in Section VI".
> > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/main/data/OPUBL-1.0.toml
> > (I think we did it this way because under our new system prohibiting
> > it by default while stating an exception was the most convenient way
> > to express the policy, which has been in place in Fedora for at least
> > ~15 years.)
>
> We stopped building documentation for the coq package because it is
> under this license.  The LICENSE file says: "Options A and B are *not*
> elected."  I only see options A and B in Section VI, so that would
> fall under this exception, right?

Yes.

> When I visit https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/not-allowed-licenses/
> and search for OPUBL-1.0, the usage note you refer to does not appear,
> so I was unaware of it.  Now that you mention it, I do see it in
> data/OPUBL-1.0.toml in the Fedora License Data repository.  I just
> paged through every license on
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/not-allowed-licenses/ and
> no usage notes are displayed for any of them.

Yes, there is an open issue about this:
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/164

Richard
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