[Fedora-legal-list] PHP PEAR channel definition license

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 01/30/2010 01:21 AM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> I'm running into an interesting problem with PHP PEAR channel
> definition licensing. All that this really is is an XML file that
> defines where to get the channel, etc, similar to a yum repo
> definition.
> 
> The problem is that there is no copyright specified for this file.
> Looking at other review requests, it looks like either the license
> field was pulled out of thin air with no explanation, or they used the
> license of the PHP modules distributed by the channel. This approach
> seems wrong to me, as there could obviously be modules covered by
> several different licenses.
> 
> At a more basic level, is such a file a even a copyrightable work? I
> don't believe so, because it contains no creative expression
> whatsoever - it's just metadata

I'm going to say that the work you're describing is not copyrightable,
thus, we don't need to worry too much about it being unlicensed.

~spot