[Bug 1501522] Review Request: fdk-aac - Third-Party Modified Version of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library for Android

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522



--- Comment #43 from Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #40)
> It is a Fedora policy that licenses allowed in Fedora must be free according
> to the FSF.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main also says:
> > This list is based on the licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation , OSI and consultation with Red Hat Legal.
> and all the licenses in the list so far:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses
> are approved by the FSF (in 2 cases, under certain conditions that are
> required to be satisfied for software under those licenses to be allowed in
> Fedora).
> 
> Approving a license considered non-free by the FSF would be a significant
> policy change that needs approval from the Council and that I am strongly
> opposed against (and I hope I am not the only one).


The policy does not actually state that all licenses has to be approved by the
FSF. It just says that when we considering a license for Fedora we look at
licenses approved by FSF, OSI and Red Hat legal. So in practice these 3 groups
are likely to agree on a license in the vast majority of cases and thus all
current licenses as you say are FSF approved, but the policy does not state
that FSF approval is a hard requirement.

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