legal April 2023

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CoPilot and Fedora packages
by Vitaly Zaitsev 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hello. I'm asking the Fedora Legal team for a position on open source projects containing GitHub CoPilot AI generated code. We need to solve this problem for the electrum update[1]. I think this is not a problem for OSS projects, because even if CoPilot copy-pastes GPL-licensed fragments, the license will be GPL. [1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/electrum/pull-request/5 -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)

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Do I merge "(A AND B) AND A" into "A AND B" or not?
by Miro Hrončok 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Hello, during a package review I came across this License tag (simplified): License: ((Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) Where "(Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause" is a license of one "unit" built into the RPM and "Apache-2.0 OR MIT" is a license of another "unit". (Both units are built into a single binary if that makes a difference.) Do I change that to: License: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND BSD-3-Clause Or not? I know that we are not supposed to calculate "effective license", but in my head they both mean the exact same thing. -- Miro Hrončok -- Phone: +420777974800 IRC: mhroncok

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