On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 10:02 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > The new license looks ok to me, I will pass it along to the FSF for > review, even though the EPSG dataset is content, not code, their opinion > is always valued on licensing matters. The FSF pointed out a few things: 1. The line between functional code and content is very blurry here. This dataset is effectively code, as much a struct of PCI IDs would be. 2. The new changes in the EPSG dataset licensing are a strong step in the right direction. 3. However, the license needs to explicitly allow all sorts of modification. Perhaps someone would want to add their own coordinate reference system in the future. The new license text does not permit this. A clause similar to that used in other licenses, where the modified version must be marked as modified, may not call itself the EPSG dataset, etc, etc, would be acceptable. 4. Without that explicit permission to modify the dataset, the license is not considered Free, and is not acceptable for Fedora. The FSF wanted to emphasize that they are appreciative of the hard work done to improve this license, and they are willing to assist in the process of amending this license so that it is Free. ~spot -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
