On 5/23/22 19:44, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:37 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Fedora legal and packaging,
I'm cross-posting this, as I think it's relevant to both groups.
The current policy for filling out the license field of the spec file (as described at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/LicensingGuidelines/ ) states, "The License: field refers to the licenses of the contents of the binary rpm. When in doubt, ask."
As we consider how to improve documentation related to Fedora licensing, it would be helpful to hear people's thoughts on the following:
1) how do you (package maintainers) interpret this policy in practice?
2) what further information/documentation about this policy would be helpful?
3) should this policy be different, and if so, how?
4) any other related thoughts or observations
I generally interpret it to mean the effective license that covers the
resulting artifacts shipped in the binary RPM. I think this is fine,
but we definitely have a gap in RPM packaging in that we can't declare
the license of the Source RPM anywhere. This is particularly kludgy
when you have vendored or bundled code.
I seem to have a dim recollection of ability to define source license
separately being requested at some point years ago, but it never went
anywhere, for whatever reason.
...
After rummaging through some dusty archives, turns that discussion took
place between Spot and myself in August 2007. No wonder the recollection
was dim. I guess there was never any ticket/bug filed on it and the
email simply got slowly buried in the sediment.
Feel free to open a ticket at
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/ if this is something we
should look into. Doesn't seem like rocket science to add an optional
SourceLicense that would be used for the src.rpm license if present, or
something like that.
- Panu -
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