On 14 Dec 2006 11:49:16 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> "MC" == Matej Cepl <ceplm@xxxxxxxxx> writes: MC> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:11:11 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III scripst: >> I have not attempted to pick a list of those common licenses, >> although I have provided some data on what License: tags are in >> use. MC> Certainly I am missing in the list my preferred (and very common) MC> MIT/X license. Well, two issues here: As I wrote in the text you quoted, I wasn't attempting to provide an exhaustive list of licenses to be standardized; I only listed a few examples so that I could get feedback on the proposal itself first and work on the complete list of tags afterwords. Unfortunately so far the only comments I've received has been about tags that are missing form the examples. So the only thing you should infer from the purposefully incomplete random list of examples is that it's incomplete.
Comments: A) Thankyou very much for continuing on this. I made a list for FC-6 and could not get back to it because of job changes B) One should distinguish v1 and v2 of the GPL. The changes if I remember were rather important. I don't know of any code though under v1. C) There are multiple versions of the LGPL. I do not remember the differences between renaming it from Library GPL to Lesser GPL. D) I would go for a standardization as the following: Name of license, Version of license, File(s) to see details. BSD, Original, See /usr/share/licenses/BSD.Original BSD, Updated, See /usr/share/licenses/BSD.Updated Multiple, See /usr/share/<package-name>/licenses/ GPL, v1, See /usr/share/licenses/GPL.v1.0 There could be a package called Fedora-Recognized-Licenses-1.0 that installs most of the ones that are considered matching the purpose of the project. It should not be a grab-bag of every license the OSI said was ok.. but the core ones that Fedora considers to be good examples of the central values of Liberty, Equality, and Justice. All other licenses would be required to be placed in the /usr/share/package-name/licenses directory. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
