Dne 08. 06. 22 v 19:58 Jilayne Lovejoy napsal(a):
Hi all,
As you all know, we have a larger project of moving Fedora license
data to a data format and repository, updating and improving
Fedora-legal documentation related to licensing, and adoption of SPDX
ids. In light of that, it is also relevant to look at the process for
review of a new license for potential inclusion in Fedora.
I'd describe the past/current process as:
- send email to this list, some discussion may ensue on list (with
community members and Red Hat legal), decision made and then license
is added to the applicable wiki table (good or bad) at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing
- Of course, up until somewhat recently, this entire workflow was
shepherded by Tom Callaway
Now that we have the license data in a repository, it seems like we
can use Issues and Merge Requests for the process flow, instead of
relying on email. As such, I'd like to propose something along the
following lines:
*
**How to request review of a new license*
If you find a license for a package you want to include in Fedora and
that license is not listed in the Fedora License Data, you can submit
it for review as follows:
Note: you must be a Fedora contributer and become part of the Fedora
Gitlab group. See LINK for more on how to become a Fedora contributor.
1) Create a new issue in the Fedora License Data repo with the
following information: license name, link to text of license, package
name and link, why you want to include it in Fedora, whether it is on
the SPDX License List, and the SPDX expression as applicable (see
below for hints on determining if a license text matches a license on
the SPDX License List)
Is is possible to follow the repository somehow? Not sure. If that is
not the case, it would be useful if note about the issue was sent to
this ML. Or the discussion was forwarded here.
Vít
2) All discussion related to the license review based on the license
criteria will be on the Issue thread and a decision will be noted there.
` If the license is not on the SPDX License List, then submit the
license to the to the SPDX-legal team at
https://tools.spdx.org/app/submit_new_license/. In addition to the
required information, include a note that it is under review for
Fedora and a link to the related Fedora License Data Gitlab issue.
The ultimate decision for licenses allowed or not-allowed for Fedora
based upon the license criteria rests with Red Hat legal.
3) Once a decision has been made, the person who submitted the license
for review creates a Merge Request for the license using the TOML file
format.
4) Merge Requests will be reviewed and merged by the Fedora License
Data repo maintainers.
Happy to hear your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions!
Thanks,
Jilayne
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