https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1609221
Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> changed:
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Status|NEW |CLOSED
CC| |tcallawa(a)redhat.com
Resolution|--- |NOTABUG
Last Closed| |2018-07-30 13:02:28
--- Comment #1 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> ---
Hi Dave,
Fedora uses this list of "Good Licenses":
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
You will note that Public Domain is on that list. You are also correct that the
OSI list does not include Public Domain. Why the difference?
Public Domain is not really a license, and the OSI list only lists licenses.
When a work is in the Public Domain, it is because either the Copyright has
expired or the original copyright holder has abandoned their copyright on the
work.
When a work is in the Public Domain, it may be used by anyone in any way that
they wish. (It is actually way more complicated than that, but for our
purposes, this is correct.)
Becuase PD works have no copyright, they cannot have a copyright license. But,
this is not a problem for Fedora (or anyone else), because no license is
necessary to have all of the freedoms covered in the Open Source Definition for
PD works.
This means that while perl-DBIx-Simple is not technically under an Open Source
License, this is only because it is not under _any_ license, because it is not
copyrighted at all, and that state is Open Source compatible.
Hope that helps.
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