On 7/20/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, the new FESCo is going to act as the "Fedora License Police"
Always so negative. I'd personally like to think of it more as a Licensing Neighborhood Watch Program. The goal here is to make sure that maintainers who are depending on other packages such as libraries aren't blind-sided by a licensing change that causes some sort of licensing violation. Trust me, we don't want to have to deal with a licensing problem after the fact. Nobody wants to end up in a situation where someone has to drop the hammer and take a decisive corrective action to hot fix an existing licensing problem. We minimize the chance of such things by communicating amongst ourselves as maintainers when licensing changes occur. At the end of the day all maintainers are responsible for knowing the licensing issues surrounding the distribution and linking of the packages they maintain.. but there's an incentive for everyone to be neighborly and make sure that licensing changes for packages are being communicated to other maintainers that need to know about it before those changes enter into the common repository of software. Unless as a community we are prepared to support narrowing what we allow in to exactly one version of one license there is going to have to be an in-house pro-active effort to watch for potential problems in the license arena. If you're not happy with FESCO playing the role of 'good cop' in this affair you might be significantly less thrilled with my oscar worthy performance as 'bad cop.' -jef"I shot a baby moose standing no futher than 6 feet away from me in my yard yesterday. It shot it with a Nikon D200, through my front window..several seconds after i peed my pants from the shock of opening the window blinds to stare into the eyes of the large pony-ish form in my yard"spaleta. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
