Hello, all.
I'm about to package the Perl distribution Throwable-SugarFactory[0] which one of my packages now depends on.
The "Copyright and License" section of the page[0] reads: "Christian Walde has dedicated the work to the Commons by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law and all related or neighboring legal rights he or she had in the work, to the extent allowable by law.
Works under CC0 do not require attribution. When citing the work, you should not imply endorsement by the author."
Can I package this ? How do I express this in Fedora conventions?
Regards, Emmanuel
[0] https://metacpan.org/dist/Throwable-SugarFactory [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Throwable::SugarFactory#COPYRIGHT-AND-LICENSE
V Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 05:43:11PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman napsal(a):
I'm about to package the Perl distribution Throwable-SugarFactory[0] which one of my packages now depends on.
The "Copyright and License" section of the page[0] reads: "Christian Walde has dedicated the work to the Commons by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law and all related or neighboring legal rights he or she had in the work, to the extent allowable by law.
This sounds like a public domain dedication. Fedora already recognizes the following text as the dedication:
To the extent possible under law, the author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this software to the public domain worldwide. This software is distributed without any warranty.
Throwable-SugarFactory is similar.
Works under CC0 do not require attribution. When citing the work, you should not imply endorsement by the author."
As far as I know CC0 does not require an attribution: I was unable to find such requirement in CC0 and CC0 FAQ confirms it https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#Does_CC0_require_others_who_use_my_work_to_give_me_attribution.3F.
Therefore I think we can ignore this section.
Can I package this ? How do I express this in Fedora conventions?
I guess adding the text to public-domain-text.txt into https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data.git and using LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain identifier in the License tag.
-- Petr
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 05:43:11PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
Hello, all.
I'm about to package the Perl distribution Throwable-SugarFactory[0] which one of my packages now depends on.
The "Copyright and License" section of the page[0] reads: "Christian Walde has dedicated the work to the Commons by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law and all related or neighboring legal rights he or she had in the work, to the extent allowable by law.
Works under CC0 do not require attribution. When citing the work, you should not imply endorsement by the author."
Can I package this ? How do I express this in Fedora conventions?
I see this text as merely some verbiage they've added to the API docs as a human targetted summarization of the licensing. IOW, I would ignore this specific text.
The actual license is clearly stated in their top level LICENSE file, which repeats this summarization, but then provides the full CC0 1.0 license text. IOW it is clear that the license is CC0 IMHO:
https://metacpan.org/release/MITHALDU/Throwable-SugarFactory-0.213360/source...
The problem is that CC0 has been forbidden by Fedora for newly added packages if applied to code. It is only permitted for content. So it would look like this package cannot be added to Fedora today.
With regards, Daniel