On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 04:37 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 22:32 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Well, why should I change my opinion on something which had been > > repeatedly discussed to death (E.g. on FPC meetings) and which I > > consider to be "silly and naive"? > > And that was before GPLv3 was released, mind you... A fact which doesn't matter at all 1. Actually, the GPL case is a comparatively simple case, because it's widely used. The situations rendering such "license tagging" absurd are the "not so far spread" and "exotic" licenses, which * FESCO will never be able to handle due to lack of legal knowledge. * RPM's license-tag will not be able to handle without a "license tag" registry/Fedora license tag administration office. 2. Package maintainers are supposed to check their packages for license compatibility. Otherwise Fedora will need a "licensing police". 3. We did cover GPLv3 in our discussions on FPC meetings. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
