Axel Thimm wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:44:54PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
Which we are about to dump, or not?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis
We arent planning to dump 4-clause BSD licensed software. It qualifies
as a Free software license. The analysis page above is only about
auditing packages to find out whether any of them are under non-free or
proprietary licenses.
But weren't there recent efforts to drop OSI and go FSF GPL compatible
only so that RMS knightifies Fedora?
There are many GPL incompatible Free software licenses and we dont plan
on dropping them. 4-clause BSD is one of these GPL incompatible Free
software licenses. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html.
A change in the guidelines from FSF or OSI list to both or FSF only
might not affect us.
One of them is the reciprocal license
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/rpl.php) which FSF sees as a
non-free license and none of Fedora packages use and the other one is
RealNetworks Public Source License
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/real.php) only used by Helix Player
which is pending on FSF to clarify their view but I think is likely to
qualify from a superficial look. How many people are going to bother
about us dropping Helix player anyway?
Rahul
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