On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 5:30 PM Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As I've been working on converting license tags to SPDX, I have found > myself frequently needing to determine the license for some file that > is not distributed by the package upstream, such as JavaScript and CSS > files copied in by documentation builders, or header files from > header-only packages. To avoid figuring out the same license over and > over, I started taking notes. Over the past few days, I've been > tidying up my notes for consumption by someone other than me. Here > they are: > > https://jamezone.org/pleasure/software/Fedora/license/
Thank you! I think this will prove very useful. - Richard > > I hope this will be useful for some of you. Notes on the notes: > > 1. The Computer Modern font license is "Knuth", but that is the old license > name. There is an open issue to determine how to submit that license to > SPDX: > > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/18 > > It is unfortunate that this affects Computer Modern, which is the default > font used by TeX; it is likely that a very high percentage of PDF files > generated by TeX have these fonts embedded in them. > > 2. If you analyze anything on the list, please send me an email to tell me if > you came to the same conclusions about licenses. If you did, I will update > the page to note that a 2nd party verified the analysis. If you did not, > tell me how your analysis disagrees. > > 3. If you have similar notes for packages I don't have on the list, let's > combine our notes. This list should ultimately live on a Fedora-managed > web page. Right now it is still fairly incomplete. > > 4. Packages I hope to analyze soon: various Sphinx extensions, GAPDoc, and > hevea. > > 5. Having my face peeking at me from the top of all of my web pages is > starting to creep me out. I need to find another picture. > > Regards, > -- > Jerry James > http://www.jamezone.org/ > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
