On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 09:28:36AM -0600, Jilayne Lovejoy wrote:
On 10/26/21 9:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 08:45:13AM -0600, Jilayne Lovejoy wrote:
>>This variant of the 4-clause BSD license is on the SPDX License List
>>but with an additional lead-in section: see:
>>https://spdx.org/licenses/Caldera.html
>>
>>Does anyone have any idea as to how prevalent this license is? I'm
>>wondering why this variant removes the first paragraph. (Perhaps
>>SPDX should mark that first paragraph as optional.)
>Since we don't have a complete exploded, searchable repository of all of the
>packages in Fedora¹,
is there a project to create this?!? that would be awesome... I'd donate! ;)
>I don't have a quick way to check, but the string
>(case-insensitive) "caldera" does not appear in any of the files under
>/usr/share/licenses/ on my system.
is /usr/share/licenses/ a complete collection? seems like this license
would likely appear in the files themselves? (but back to... no way to
search that easily)?
/usr/share/licenses contains the license files of the installed
packages on the system. So no, it's not the entirety of Fedora. Only
the Fedora you have installed.
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