[fab] Fedora as Free Software?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 6/12/06, Michael Tiemann <tiemann at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> As FC6 planning continues apace, I'd like to make sure that we don't
> lose sight of this topic.  Is there any way we can push this forward?
> It's irritating that we have licenses that are neither free software nor
> under OSI-approved licenses.  Who is the logical point person for this?



Ok here is what is out of Fedora development this morning.. hoping that the
License tag is accurate. There are about 238 packages that need 'cleanups'
in one form or another.. my counting had to be done by hand because style
issues.

Total Packages:         1155
GPL Only:                504
LGPL Only:               137
MIT/X11:                 119
BSD:                      58
Artistic/GPL:             42
MIT:                      16
GPL/LGPL:                 14
Public Domain:            17

Apache Software License:  46
MPL:                       4
CPL:                       9?
GPL combination:          29
LGPL combination:         13
Python:                    5

Lots of Style Issues in others:

"Artistic or GPL" vs "GPL or Artistic"
"LGPL/GPL" vs "GPL/LGPL" vs "GPL,LGPL" vs "LGPL, GPL"
"Apache Software License" vs "Apache Software License 2.0" vs "Apache
License"
"GPL2" vs "GPLv2" vs "GNU GPL version 2"
"IBM Public License" vs "IBM Common Public License (CPL) v1.0" vs ...
"X License" vs "X11"

The rest:

     28 distributable
     25 Distributable
      6 BSDish
      5 BSD-style
      4 freeware
      4 Artistic
      3 Freely distributable
      3 Free
      3 BSD-like
      3 BSD style
      3 BSD Style
      2 The Open Group License
      2 Redistributable, with restrictions
      2 OSI certified
      2 LaTeX Project Public License (http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt)
      2 Freely Distributable
      2 Exolab Software License
      2 CDDL
      1 zlib License
      1 freely distributable
      1 eGenix.com Public License (Python)
      1 XFree86
      1 XDoclet Open Source Licence
      1 X11-style
      1 X License
      1 W3C IPR
      1 Various licenses
      1 Various
      1 University of Washington Free-Fork License
      1 The PHP License v3.01
      1 The PHP License 3.0
      1 Tanuki Software License (open source)
      1 Special (see COPYING.TXT.gz)
      1 Sendmail
      1 SLIB
      1 Public Use License v1.0
      1 OpenLDAP
      1 Open Group Public License
      1 Open Group Pegasus Open Source
      1 MIT-style
      1 MIT, freely distributable.
      1 MIT X11
      1 JPackage License
      1 GNU FDL
      1 GFDL
      1 Freeware
      1 Free To Use But Restricted (See LICENSE)
      1 FDL
      1 Eclipse Public License - v 1.0 (EPL) <
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html>
      1 EPL (Eclipse Public License)  <
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html>
      1 EPL
      1 Distributable (BSD-like)
      1 Creative Commons ShareAlike
      1 Copyright \uffff 1999-2006 Red Hat, Inc.  All rights reserved.
      1 Clarkware License
      1 Boost Software License
      1 BSD-compatible
      1 Apacheish







-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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