On 17. 07. 24 22:15, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 3:41 PM Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dne 17. 07. 24 v 6:41 odp. Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
Done.
Hi Mirek,
I am a bit confused.
I thought there was a clear nonconsensus about the *GPL conversion [1] which resulted to the FESCo ticket [2]. It is kinda surprising to see the "Done." comment here and in the LGPL thread as well.
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/Q5VAL3I26A4ACWCXWWFHTKV6OXO2GISZ/
[2] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3230
Ouch, now I am confused too.
You are right that the final wording is:
!agreed FESCo is in favor of standardizing on the SPDX format and understands that not all licenses are ready for direct conversion. Those licenses that are unreviewed or otherwise not yet fully compliant should be converted to SPDX licenses of the format LicenseRef-<something indicating Fedora legacy>-* where * is the old Fedora identifier. (+8, 1, -0)
which means that I should stop doing that 1:1 (aka trivial) conversion and convert *everything* to LicenseRef-Callaway-*. But I was on that meeting - and if you read the log:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproject-org/2024-07-16/fesco.2024-07-16-17.00.log.html
There was:
<@sgallagh:fedora.im>
17:52:01
Proposal: FESCo is in favor of standardizing on the SPDX format and understands that not all licenses are ready for this. Those that are not should be converted to SPDX licenses to a format `LicenseRef-<something indicating Fedora legacy>-*` where "*" is the old format.
...
<@msuchy:matrix.org>
17:52:24
Can I have a clear statement what to do with GPL* ?
....
<@zbyszek:fedora.im>
17:54:04
The whole point is to convert everything.
<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>
17:54:08
nirik: it'd be GPLv2 -> GPL-2.0-only, GPLv2+ -> GPL-2.0-or-later
<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>
17:54:20
and so on
<@zbyszek:fedora.im>
17:54:22
Otherwise, it's not syntactically valid.
<@salimma:fedora.im>
17:54:26
sorry, I mixed up msuchy's question with Neal's original response
<@nirik:matrix.scrye.com>
17:54:32
but then we have 0 way to tell what was converted? I guess we could look at commits
<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>
17:54:56
after everything is said and done, audits still need to be done separately
<@conan_kudo:matrix.org>
17:55:00
don't mistake conversions for audits
<@salimma:fedora.im>
17:55:05
we might need a second vote to clarify what to do with ambiguous licenses
....
<@salimma:fedora.im>
17:58:24
so Stephen's new proposal is quite clear that every legacy license we can't convert to SPDX would be marked as LicenseRef-<legacy>-* ... I think that addresses the ambiguity
So I'd say that Neal statement in 17:54:08 put me in mistake that I should continue with 1:1 but it is not in the final decision/statement.
What you're doing is what we expected in FESCo. GNU license
identifiers *are* trivial conversions. The main ones that aren't are
the older "BSD" and "MIT" ones, which have no meaningful analogue in
SPDX.
That is your opinion. My opinion differs:
The *GPL conversions *are not* trivial because they may hide several other
"weaker" licenses in them following the old rules, which is no longer allowed
by the new rules that were created when we approved the entire SPDX thing.
---
The disagreement on this is what spawned the discussion and the FESCo ticket in
the first place.
If FESCo wanted to autoconvert all the old "*GPL" licenses to the new SPDX GPL
identifiers, it should have been proposed and voted upon. That did not happen.
FESCo approved what to do with the ones that are not trivial, but it did not
say which are trivial.
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