On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:01:09AM +0200, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone was considering cross-distribution fossology[1] > instance where we could share burden of license review with other > distros. I know at least Debian does comprehensive license reviews and > we could possibly deduplicate a lot of review time this way. > > Note that I am not talking about doing whole package reviews in > fossology, just hooking up the license checking part there. > > It's likely we'd need to clean up fossology a bit to be universally > usable for this use case, but it should be doable. Opinions, > suggestions...all welcome. > > [1] http://fossology.org/ > Probably should get Fedora Legal's opinion here too. I'm not sure I'd like the idea of having the work of license review done by third parties. I think it might be better to do reporting to fossology. ie: we do license review and Debian also does license review and we coordinate by posting our results to fossology. The reason is that I've seen a lot of missed license problems both in Fedora packages and in Debian packages. Coordinating more eyes on the problem seems like a way to fix this while deduplicating just means we'll all be sharing the same erroneous assumptions. -Toshio
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