On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:16 AM Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 9:41 AM David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > Back to the original question... what short name do we give this license?
> > >
> > > - It has an advertising clause
> > > - It forbids relicensing under any form of the GPL (curious what that
> > > means
> > > for potential derivative works)
> > > - And it has the postcard/QSL card request, sort of like vim's
donation
> > > request
> > >
> > > License: BSD with oddities
> > >
> > > or
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> > > License: Difficult
> > >
> > > ?
> >
> > It actually has some text in common with the Beer-ware license. At
> > least if this is the license of the entire package, or a substantial
> > part of it, I would suggest an identifier specific to this license,
> > perhaps "Diane Bruce [License]" (if I'm correct that the
> > author/licensor here is the FreeBSD developer Diane Bruce).
> >
> > Richard
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> It seems Debian ships the code with the following license:
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> Copyright: (C) Diane Bruce <db(a)FreeBSD.ORG>
> License: Permissive
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> thanks & regards
>
> Jaroslav
So could anybody authoritatively reply the following questions?
1) Can the code be packaged to Fedora?
Yes, it's a free software, GPL-incompatible license by Fedora's standards.
2) How to name the license?
I don't have a good suggestion here (other than my suggestion of
"Diane Bruce" above). It's unlikely this license would be found
anywhere else. I found it intriguing that Debian apparently uses the
label "Permissive", I assume as a catchall for various one-off
nonstandard noncopyleft FOSS licenses? I don't think that's an
approach Fedora has attempted to take but it might be worth
considering.
Richard