[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Properly releasing software to the public domain

[Stuart D Gathman]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Richard Fontana via legal wrote:
> AFAIK Fedora actually does not currently have any specific license
> recommendations for anything other than (if this hasn't changed) the
> use of CC-BY-SA-4.0 for Fedora documentation. In the past I believe
> Fedora had some informal recommendations around use of the GPL
> (GPLv2?), LGPL (2.1?) and the MIT license for certain specific
> categories of things, and I think there were some informal
> recommendations to use CC0 in some situations and (though I imagine
> this had no practical significance) SIL OFL 1.1 for fonts.

Having an actual permissive license makes it clear to a potential user
that there is no copyright violation.