On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 9:23 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I see an important project has decided it's good idea to remove their own > copyright notice from the top of their MIT license file while preserving the > requirement for distributors to keep the copyright notice. > > """ > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in > all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > """ > > But there is no such copyright notice to include. > > Is it OK for a Fedora package to distribute the project Yes. I think the only reason this is not more common is that a lot of people copy-paste the MIT license text (including the copyright notice template) from other sources like the OSI website or other projects. However, the detail "their own" is important. If we were aware of a project where the current maintainers were removing copyright notices of third parties from MIT license texts, this should be seen as an error. This seems to be what almost happened with inflect. > or is it impossible to > comply with the license terms and hence not allowed? That itself doesn't concern me. I would interpret it as "the above copyright notice (if one exists)". But (in an MIT license scenario, and probably most other open source license scenarios) I'd see removal of someone else's copyright notice without their permission as a license violation, unless it was determined that the original copyright notice was or became incorrect, as is common. Here's a case of what I believe is an incorrect MIT license copyright notice that I recently pointed out: https://github.com/containers/bootc/issues/766 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
