On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 00:34 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 05:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 18:27 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > > OK, I know this is going to be painful, but we need to solve this (FESCo > > > is waiting for us to do it), and I think this is the cleanest way: > > > > > > Please review: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/LicenseTag > > > and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing . > > > > > > We'll vote on it next week. > > > > -1 > > > > As I understand it, you are trying mandate versioned license tags. > > Such an approach is inapplicable without a "license tags" register being > > actively maintained by an "licence tag administration office". > > > > In other words, to me your proposal is equivalent to mandating cars > > carring license tags but allowing car owner to "paint them themselves". > > Ralf, there really isn't any other way to solve the problem without > having a list of standard license identifiers. Then think your thought to an end and implement the required administration bureau first. Right now, you are stopping half-ways, and therefore fail to see the bureaucracy you are trying to push onto fedora contributors. RH is going to force Fedora into a more bureaucratic than Debian has ever been. > The http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing page is the license > registry. I'm volunteering to lead the effort to maintain it, since I've > effectively been doing that for more than a year now. ROTFL - You can't be serious to call this an infrastructure. > I'm more than willing to take on additional helpers to maintain this > license registry. I'm very willing to alter the license identifiers to > make they more simplistic, but without that baseline standard, it won't > be possible to predictably track license data from packages. Whatfor? Somebody from the "dark circles" at RH ordered you to do so and because of the GPLv3 had been introduced. I call this overreaction and hysteria ... Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
