[Fedora-legal-list] Re: License clarification: is CC-PDDC just "Public Domain"?

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

Hi Richard, Jilayne,

Any opinion on the original question about CC-PDDC? It affects a new
package review (rust-pwd).

Thanks,

Michel

On Wed, 2022-06-29 at 01:29 -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> My view - Fedora shouldn't at this point make classifications on
> licenses in advance of their foreseeable inclusion in an actual
> proposed or existing package in Fedora. (Historically, Fedora did
> this, possibly even with respect to some of the Creative Commons
> licenses.)
>
> Richard
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:30 PM Jilayne Lovejoy 
> wrote:
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > Are you asking for the review of these b/c there is a package to be
> > included in Fedora that uses these licenses?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jilayne
> >
> > On 6/28/22 3:57 PM, Justin W. Flory (he/him) wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Since Creative Commons licenses are already coming up, how is the
> > Creative Commons IGO license family classified in Fedora?
> >
> > I didn't notice these licenses in the Licenses wiki page. They are
> > distinctly different from other Creative Commons licenses and to
> > the best of my knowledge, they are not superseded by the 4.0 family
> > of Creative Commons licenses. I mention it here because if we are
> > looking at other Creative Commons license families, it would be
> > good to clarify how Fedora views the IGO family too. For context,
> > some UN agencies are considering the IGO family of licenses as a
> > default open source license for work created by public servants, so
> > it isn't impossible to see CC IGO content working its way into
> > Fedora at some point.
> >
> > The key distinction made in the IGO licenses from other CC licenses
> > is around mediation and arbitration for resolving legal disputes.
> > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
> > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
> > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo/
> > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Justin W. Flory (he/him) || 🔗 jwf.io
> > TZ=America/New_York 🕖
> >
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 at 15:49, Michel Alexandre Salim
> >  wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > During the review of rust-pwd (needed as a new dependency for rust-
> > nu-
> > path):
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101580
> >
> > it came to light that the upstream Rust crate declares the license
> > to
> > be CC-PDDC: https://spdx.org/licenses/preview/CC-PDDC.html
> >
> > The change itself happened after the previous patch release (1.3.0)
> > and
> > is released in the latest 1.3.1:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/pwoolcoc/pwd/-/commit/8375b41379c6f7b2a3b7a675d6b892b27fa...
> >
> > Two questions here:
> > can we treat CC-PDDC as basically Public Domain, which is
> >
> > approved by
> > Fedora per
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
> > if not, can we use the Git commit history to assume that the
> >
> > intent
> > is to make this public domain?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Michel Alexandre Salim
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