[Fedora-legal-list] Claims about Fair License

[Vassilis Palassopoulos]

Hi there,

I was searching to find more information about the Fair License and found out it was mentioned here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main

The entry in the fedora wiki says it's FSF free, GPLv2 compliant, GPLv3 compliant but I can't find any source for that (e.g. in FSF or GNU website like https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html ). There's an article in wikipedia but it's missing any citation towards these claims. The license is in the list of approved OSI licenses as one can see http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical but that doesn't say much in regards to the 3 claims.

The closest thing I could find is the fact that in an OSI board meeting the WTFPL was considered redundant to the Fair License http://opensource.org/minutes20090304
FSF considers WTFPL a free software and GPL-compatible license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL

Personally, after reading the license, I don't think that the claims are wrong but I'm not an expert and determining the status of a license through the status of another license being used as a proxy could be risky.

Are there any reliable sources towards these claims? Is there a reasoning on why they are mentioned in the fedora wiki article (and if so I'd be interested to know what the reasoning is) or does it require more research before stating these claims?

Kind Regards,
Vassilis Palassopoulos