On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:10:41PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On the topic of FPCA improvements, it would probably make sense
(if
> the FPCA is retained) to replace the MIT license as the default code
> license with MIT No Attribution, aka MIT-0, recently approved by the
> OSI as an open source license:
>
https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT-0
> (which would also enable a minor simplification of the FPCA text).
>
I would personally prefer we didn't. That has the knock-on effect of
making it possible for RHEL folks to not include Fedora changelogs
when they fork Fedora for RHEL, since the RPM changelogs are the only
attribution we actually *have* in the distribution. And I've
personally experienced very positive reinforcement for contributing to
Fedora and CentOS Stream by pointing to public attribution via changelogs.
I agree with Neal here as a deep gut reaction. Recognition is important,
even if it is buried pretty deeply from endusers.
That said, uh, we trim changelogs, so if we're arguing that that's the
attribution part, we have some digging through git history to do to repair
that.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader