Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: Important changes to software license information in Fedora packages (SPDX and more!)

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On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 11:05 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Ralf Corsépius:
>
> > Am 31.07.22 um 18:57 schrieb Richard Fontana:
> >> There are so few non-legacy, today-commonly-used,
> >> generally-accepted-as-FOSS licenses that are not viewed as
> >> GPLv3-compatible that I think it might be better for Ansible to just
> >> list those (the only one I can think of is EPL-2.0), or to list a
> >> small set of recommended/acceptable commonly-used FOSS licenses.
> > I do not agree with this view and consider this decision not to be helpful.
> >
> > These licenses might not be "commonly used", but if they are used,
> > these are the controversal ones, that need to be looked into, exactly
> > because they "not commonly used".
>
> But there's the general license review process for that, and that's not
> going to go away?  It's just that claims regarding GPLv2 or GPLv3
> compatibility are no longer an expected deliverable of the review
> process.

I think the problem here is not that GPLcompatibility of *new*
licenses may need to be determined,
but that *existing* compatibility matrices have been removed from the
documentation for licenses *that were already approved* as "good".

Fabio
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