On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 5:13 AM Robert-André Mauchin <zebob.m@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm doing a MR on an old package that contains firmware data. > > I wanna convert to SPDX, what is the equivalent to "Redistributable, no modification > permitted" in SPDX. > > The license is: > > The files in the directory src/miniloader are provided pursuant to the > following license agreement: > > License For Customer Use of NVIDIA Software > > > What can I use for SPDX? The license first has to be reviewed; this will ultimately result in a license identifier that can be used in place of "Redistributable, no modification permitted" assuming the license is allowed or otherwise tolerated. Please open a new issue in fedora-license-data. I think this would be the first firmware license we would specifically consider since instituting the new license review process last year. The policy on allowed firmware licenses is described here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/#_license_requirements_for_firmware These criteria were based on an analysis of known firmware licenses in Fedora done sometime around ... maybe 2010 or so? To accommodate this license we might have to make some additions to those criteria. We haven't yet had to address the question of how to deal with license identifiers for firmware. There are three possibilities: 1. Ask SPDX to assign an identifier, the usual approach for allowed licenses. This is unlikely to be viable because these kinds of firmware licenses are pretty far from SPDX's license inclusion criteria (which are generally much looser than Fedora's). 2. Create a unique LicenseRef- identifier for each firmware license. 3. Create an umbrella LicenseRef- identifier for all allowed Fedora firmware licenses (similar to how 'Redistributable, no modification permitted' was used in the Callaway system). Richard _______________________________________________ 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
