On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 10:08:27PM -0500, Richard Fontana wrote: > I just skimmed through the Fedora packaging guidelines and the > FESCo-related documentation and didn't seem to find anything on this > sort of topic. I think the relevant policy is under the FPC, in the packaging guidelines: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#_packages_which_are_not_useful_without_external_code Some software is not functional or useful without the presence of external code dependencies in the runtime operating system environment. When those external code dependencies are non-free, legally unacceptable, or binary-only (with the exception of permissible firmware), then the dependent software is not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora. If the code dependencies are acceptable for Fedora, then they should be packaged and included in Fedora as a pre-requisite for inclusion of the dependent software. Software which downloads code bundles from the internet in order to be functional or useful is not acceptable for inclusion in Fedora (regardless of whether the downloaded code would be acceptable to be packaged in Fedora as a proper dependency). This specifically says "code" rather than content -- if we are comfortable defining models with weights as content (and that seemed to be the consensus), I think this is okay at under current guidelines. I'm going to file a Fedora Council ticket to ask if we should ask FPC to add AI models (and perhaps some of Tim's helpful definitions) to the examples of "permissible content" higher on that same page. But I am not going to do it today, because there is enough going on with xz and now the KDE change proposal that I can't handle it. :) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- _______________________________________________ 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
