On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 05:39:11PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
It's less about whether Red Hat/Fedora runs into that
restriction, and more
of whether someone downstream from us might. Historically, the rule for
content was "must be freely redistributable" and this fails that test,
because it places a specific restriction on one method of redistribution.
Yeah, it feels kind of weird to me too, and really in line with a lot of the
decidely-not-open-source new licenses that claim a particular economic
advantage for one group (or more usually and specifically, company). I don't
feel like it's in the _spirit_ of what this should be all about.
Also, although it says commercial use is okay, this
https://unsplash.com/license also says "Photos cannot be sold without
significant modification", and I'm unclear what that means. If these images
would innocently find their way into a Fedora edition that ships on a
product that is for sale (a laptop or a phone or an iot device), what would
the repercussions be?
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader