Re: CC0 reclassified as "not allowed" for code (reposted from legal list)

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Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> But then fdk-aac-free is also not allowed in Fedora and should be removed:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FDK-AAC
> 
> | 3. NO PATENT LICENSE
> |
> | NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED LICENSES TO ANY PATENT CLAIMS, including without
> | limitation the patents of Fraunhofer, ARE GRANTED BY THIS SOFTWARE
> | LICENSE. Fraunhofer provides no warranty of patent non-infringement with
> | respect to this software.
> |
> | You may use this FDK AAC Codec software or modifications thereto only
> | for purposes that are authorized by appropriate patent licenses.
> 
> (That is not the only clause whose freeness was disputed, but if that
> clause is unacceptable for CC0, I do not see why it would be acceptable
> for FDK- AAC.)

https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/52

        Kevin Kofler
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