Speaking as an unqualified observer, as I see it, there are three kinds
of work in this project:
- Work after 2017-12-01, which is BSD-3-Clause (only).
- Old work for which the maintainers could not secure consent for
relicensing, which is Apache-2.0 (only).
- Old work for which the maintainers did secure consent for relicensing,
which is BSD-3-Clause. One might pedantically call this work
(BSD-3-Clause OR Apache-2.0) since the old license terms can’t be
rescinded, but this falls into the category of trying to represent
historical license terms after a relicensing, which I don’t think Fedora
should want to attempt in general. Since the maintainers don’t *intend*
to offer a choice of licenses, I think just BSD-3-Clause is a better
representation for this category.
The part that makes this awkward is that individual files in the binary
RPMs could contain any combination of these types of work. If you assume
all possible mixtures are present, and consider only the “most current”
license (as discussed above, no disjunctive license expression for
relicensed old work), this would give:
BSD-3-Clause AND (BSD-3-Clause AND Apache-2.0) AND Apache-2.0
in order to represent the possible combinations of license terms in
individual installed files.
I’ll stop short of making claims about whether to simplify that as e.g.
(BSD-3-Clause AND Apache-2.0), or about whether there are actually any
files that are still Apache-2.0 only.
On 10/16/23 10:41 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
V Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 03:20:30PM +0200, Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/blob/2.8.2/LICENSE
tl;dr:
...snip Apache-2.0...
The above license applies to all contributions after 2017-12-01, as well as
all contributions that have been re-licensed (see AUTHORS file for the list of
contributors who have re-licensed their code).
...snip BSD-3-Clause...
The above BSD License Applies to all code, even that also covered by Apache 2.0.
In other words. There is a subset of the code which is covered by Apache-2.0
and *at the same time* all of the code is covered by BSD-3-Clause.
Is that an OR case?
In my humble understanding it is: (Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause) AND BSD-3-Clause.
-- Petr
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