[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Guidelines for dealing with licensing issues in distributed packages
On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 3:19 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
* Jilayne Lovejoy:
> On 12/19/22 3:10 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> Dne 19. 12. 22 v 12:18 Florian Weimer napsal(a):
>>> * Fedora and its distributors comply with the licensing terms, but the
>>> license is not obviously on Fedora's allowed list. An example would
>>> be an obscure field-of-use restriction (as in the JSON license).
>>
>> Create an issue in https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/
>>
>> And the license may be added to not-allowed list. See
>>
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/?sort=create...
>>
>> And in that issue you can discuss what to do with the package if it
>> already in Fedora Linux.
> the process for license review is outlined at this particular link:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-review-process/
>
> :)
Thanks. I'll keep filing fedora-license-data issues until told
otherwise.
I think we can make that documentation a little clearer that the
license review process can be initiated by any interested Fedora
contributor (not just actual/intended package maintainers), for
existing as well as proposed new Fedora packages. What we don't want
is for it to be used for substantially non-Fedora-related purposes
(e.g. a license for which review is sought should demonstrably exist
in an existing Fedora package or a project that (but for any license
issues) seems likely to be included in Fedora).
Richard