On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:33 -0600, Frederick F. Kautz IV wrote: > I would also highly recommend contacting the FSF on this matter. Perhaps > they can make a recommendation on what action should be taken. We can > definitely do things to help on our side, such as the document proposed by > Benjamin Kosnik. However, this affects all open source software and not > just Fedora. Here is the e-mail address for contacting FSF on this issue: > > licensing@xxxxxxx > > Hopefully, printing/signing the GPL (or whatever license is used) will > suffice. If this is the case, we may be able to write a small > script/application included in Fedora that scans the License field on > installed RPMs to and generates a list of what licenses apply and a > verbose flag that also specifies what software falls under each license. I don't think you need each license printed, not even the GPL. This is the police wondering if the software on the PC has been legally obtained. We probably just need a document clearly written, with the right legal words for Russia, where Fedora grants the user the right to use the distribution as a whole on any number of machines, for an unlimited time, and includes grants to install updates _and_ upgrades as well under the same terms. Have the same document available on a clearly recognizable Fedora domain name, so that you can show the police that it is not a forged document, and on the site only may be have another page with the detailed set of licenses for the picky ones. Simo. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
