On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 4:17 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 11:41:09AM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > I am doing the conversion of license tags in my projects and i have a > > > project where some files are under the GPL-2.0-or-later license and other > > > under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. Perhaps this has been mentioned > > > somewhere but i did not notice, but is it possible to merge these 2 into > > > just GPL-3.0-or-later and thus reduce the specification to only one license? > > > > Per the licensing guidelines¹ > > > > The spec file License: field consists of an enumeration of > > all licenses covering any code or other material contained > > in the corresponding binary RPM. This enumeration must take > > the form of an SPDX license expression. No further analysis > > as to the "effective" license should be done. > > > > ¹ https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-field/#_basic_policy > > Yeah, this is a change from previous guidance. Instead of trying to calculate > the effect, just state what's there. Even if it makes the expression kind of > long and unwieldy. I would prefer to describe it as a clarification of previous guidance rather than a change. The earlier guidance was unclear on the whole issue of "effective licenses" and the current policy of "simple enumeration" is actually based on what some of the earlier Fedora legal documentation seemed to say or at least imply. Richard _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
