As of this morning, the Fedora Core and Extras repositories have 2884 src.rpm packages in them. Going through them, there are 191 different licenses listed.. many of them variants of the same name (and sometimes a mis-spelling). Some of the names are useful, and others are odd: libselinux -- License: Public domain (uncopyrighted) or cmucl -- License: Public Domain/MIT needs an explanation on the mailling lists every now and then. [Like can you license public domain stuff? Some license tags give the version of the license.. others also add in where the person can get a definitive copy of the license. I would like to start a discussion on having a list of licenses names to be put in these tags to make it easier for people to keep track of what is installed on a system. Something like GNU GPL version 2 or higher [see /usr/share/fedora-licenses/GPL_v2] GNU LGPL version 2 or higher [see /usr/share/fedora-license/LGPL_v2] GNU GPL version 2 ONLY [see /usr/share/fedora-licenses/GPL_v2] Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0 [see /usr/share/fedora-licenses/MPL_2.0] etc. in the cases of BSD-like/BSD-ish/etc you would refer to the packages license.. but would use the same syntax. it would also help to have something more clear on the packages listed as Distributable (all ~100 of them).. having to figure out the restrictions on each one is a pain. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
