Re: relaxng-datatype license

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On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 9:20 AM Marián Konček <mkoncek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It looks like this project
> (https://github.com/java-schema-utilities/relaxng-datatype-java) will
> need to be added to Fedora as a part of jaxb 4.0.2 -> 4.0.3 update.
>
> The sources of this package have already been bundled and differently
> namespaced part of jaxb (see
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=35187399) and present
> in Fedora. The jaxb project decided to unbundle them and depend on the
> upstream relaxng.
>
> The upstream relaxng has no LICENSE but from other sources it is
> more-less clear that it should be BSD:
> * https://relaxng.org/
> * https://sourceforge.net/projects/relaxng/
> * comment from Richard Fontana in open Issues in GitHub
> (https://github.com/java-schema-utilities/relaxng-datatype-java/issues/1)
>
> Nevertheless I would need to be completely sure that I can declare the
> package as being BSD-4-Clause, if I wanted to add it to Fedora.
>
> Can I get an official statement from Fedora legal team regarding
> acceptability of this package?

I think I may have been wrong in ~2017 (I have no recollection of
making that comment). It will require a little research to figure out
what the license of that relaxng code is, if indeed there ever was any
explicit license.

Richard
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