Hi all,
As has been mentioned here prior, Richard and I are having a look
at the Licensing part of the Wiki with an eye towards any updates
and improvements, as well as moving that to the Fedora Docs (along
with David C's work on the database for the license info).
Recently Richard posted here regarding an attempt to better define
the Fedora license categories in terms of what constitutes a
"good" license. He referenced the use of the terminology of "good"
and "bad" to indicate whether a license is approved for use in
Fedora or not.
I wanted to raise that separately b/c as we go through the
documentation, how to best explain things in the clearest way
comes up. It'd be helpful to hear people's views on this.
Historically - "good" has meant the license is approved for use in
Fedora; "bad" has meant the license is not approved for use in
Fedora; and then there are also three nuanced categories related
to fonts, documentation, and content which mean that certain
licenses are only approved for use in that context, but not
otherwise approved.
How do people feel about the use of "good", "good-for-fonts",
"bad", etc to describe these categories? Would simply using
"approved", "approved-for-fonts", "not-approved", etc. be easier
to understand?
I'll throw in my opinion here, since I'm asking for that of
others: I'm kind of mixed on this. I always thought the good/bad
indicator was kind of nice in it's informality. However, now that
I'm looking more closely at documentation, sometimes the use of
good and bad can end up reading oddly. Practically speaking, I
think use of "approved" and "not-approved" might end up being
easier to understand. Good/bad also also has a greater connotation
of judgement versus simply "approved" - which implies more closely
that it must be approved for something. So, I guess I'd lean
towards simply using "approved" and "not-approved".
Given that "good" and "bad" are historical for the Fedora
licensing documentation - what are your thoughts on this?
Jilayne