[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Review and Guidance needed - licenses transforming based on time

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 2:47 PM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Dne 17. 07. 24 v 15:45 Richard Fontana napsal(a):

> >   I think it's "fine" in theory, but somewhat risky. I imagine that in
> > some cases it won't be clear whether a particular version mixes BUSL
> > (at various stages of the process towards the "change date") and
> > post-BUSL licenses. And if we concluded that the change date had
> > occurred for everything, we might want to require some further action,
> > at a minimum documenting the conclusion (not just in the license tag)
> > and probably also at least including a copy of the post-BUSL allowed
> > license.
>
>
> Chm, I wonder how to for example apply security fix? Imagine there is
> some security issue fixed in the most recent version, will we
> reimplement such patch?

Good example. We generally won't be able to backport a BUSL-licensed
security fix to a now-free old version. Maybe reimplementing a patch
will be a solution.

Richard

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