the Fedora filters

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Mar 19 15:32:48 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 10:19 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "TC" == Tom \"spot\" Callaway <Tom> writes:
> 
> TC> In the few cases where something is OSI-approved but not FSF Free,
> TC> we'll take it, but we'll work to free it. (Note: The only item
> TC> that currently hits this filter is the Artistic 1.0 license)
> 
> That's a bit contradictory, though, because we currently won't take
> code that is (only) under the old artistic license.

Yes, but I've also not yet pulled out all the code already in Fedora
which is under Artistic 1.0.

To be fair, I plan to do so after F9 hits. I've also sent in a request
for the OSI to drop Artistic 1.0, which is pending at this time.

~spot




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