[fab] Re: Licensing audit for Fedora Extras

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue Dec 5 22:44:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:18 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:36 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> > Its more of a process of:
> > 
> > A) Download SRPM
> > B) rpm -ivh foo.src.rpm
> > C) rpmbuild -bp path/to/foo.spec
> > D) Note License in foo.spec
> > E) Manually look through all source code in BUILD/foo
> > F) Note actual licensing where it differs from License
> > G) Ensure that license(s) is/are FSF or OSI approved
> 
> For all packages that i) Fedora is the upstream[1] and ii) provide
> content in /usr/share/doc, we need to ensure that:
> 
> a. The content is licensed under the OPL only, and
> b. The OPL is used without restrictions

Um... why?

josh




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