Hey folks, During a review for flatpak-kcm for inclusion in Fedora, I discovered that KDE currently licenses its CI scripts under the CC0 (SPDX: CC0-1.0) license. This is no longer generally permitted in Fedora for software/code due to the explicit exclusion of patent license grants[1].
While I realize that the likelihood of practical issues around this is pretty low for the case that KDE has been licensing the CI scripts under, it does cause headaches for us. I've made a request for a exception[2] so that we can continue to ship KDE software without having to take extraordinary actions, but I would like to request that KDE disallow code to be licensed under CC0-1.0 and recommend all existing code under that license to be transitioned to an accepted permissive license. My suggestion would be to recommend transitioning to the MIT license[3]. Thanks in advance and best regards, Neal P.S.: I originally sent this to kde-licens...@kde.org, which apparently doesn't exist. Sorry for those CC'd getting this twice. Oops! [1]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/le...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RRYM3CLYJYW64VSQIXY6IF3TCDZGS6LM/ [2]: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/le...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q67KFP4NT3WEL2Z75BYCXMP2IOQHLBJT/ [3]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
