[fab] Re: Licensing audit for Fedora Extras

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Wed Dec 6 17:49:49 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 16:44 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:18 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > 
> > 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?

Because the only open source license Fedora uses for
content/documentation is the OPL without options.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Licensing/FAQ

When we did the relicensing earlier this year, we forgot to check
packages where we are the upstream.

- Karsten
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