[fab] Fedora as Free Software?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 13 19:48:37 UTC 2006


Stephen John Smoogen (smooge at gmail.com) said: 
> Is it worth filing bugs against the 200+ packages that need a cleanup? And
> who would formulate a standard Licensing schema for this? [Again is it worth
> it.. beyond pub arguments?] In this case (and when I had to document all the
> licenses on an RHEL-4 system for ISO-9000), it would have been nice to have
> a standard scheme:
> 
> GPL version 2 or higher [See /usr/share/LICENSES/GPL_V2]
> GPL version 2 ONLY
> LGPL version 2 or higher
> GPL vers2++/LGPL vers2++
> Artistic
> Artistic/GPL vers2++
> MPL version 1.1
> 
> Again this might just be only good for pub arguments.

Perhaps have some sort of license-tracking tool database for this sort
of thing?

Bill




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