Re: Important changes to software license information in Fedora packages (SPDX and more!)

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Matthew Miller wrote:
> All documentation related to Fedora licensing has moved to a new
> section in Fedora Docs, which you can find at:
> 
>   https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/

Several links to other sections are broken. All five links under
"Licensing in Fedora" should point to other pages instead of
non-existent sections of the same page. Several links on
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-field/ contain two
fragment identifiers. There can only be one. I haven't searched the
other pages for similar errors.

> Many software packages consist of code with different free and open
> source licenses. Previous practice often involved “simplification” of
> the package license field when the packager believed that one license
> subsumed the other — for example, using just “GPL” when the source code
> includes parts licensed under a BSD-style license as well. Going
> forward, packagers and reviewers should not make this kind of analysis,
> and rather use (for example) “GPL-2.0-or-later AND MIT”. This approach
> is easier for packagers to apply in a consistent way.

Does that also apply to licenses that explicitly say how they may be
combined? Are we supposed to write "GPL-3.0-or-later AND
GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only" or do those
still combine into GPL-3.0-only?

Björn Persson

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