On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote:
>
> El divendres, 30 de maig del 2025, a les 12:51:08 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa
> central), Neal Gompa va escriure:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote:
> > > We are trying to move most of the oss-fuzz related files to our reops
> > > instead of being in https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/
> > >
> > > This will allow us to not have to depend on other people to merge changes
> > > in them which sometimes creates a bit of friction.
> > >
> > > The problem is that those files are licenses under Apache 2 which is not
> > > mentioned in https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
> > >
> > > I would like to propose that we add a point 18 to the policy that says
> > >
> > > 18. Files involved in the oss-fuzz tooling can be licensed under the
> > > Apache
> > > License 2.0
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > Please see
> > > https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/karchive/-/merge_requests/125/diffs
> > > for one of the various places we would use it.
> >
> > Why not maintain our own oss-fuzz repo where all this is contained?
> > The karchive MR seems to pollute the project with weird binary files
> > and such. I'd rather those not be in the repo.
>
> That's orthogonal to the "Accepting Apache 2" discussion, please let's focus
> on that.
>

Honestly, it isn't. Because accepting that stuff at all is kind of the
reason for this.
I am fine with accepting Apache-2.0 content in a repo that's *all*
Apache-2.0 stuff.
>From both the technical (this is goopy garbage) and licensing
(Apache-2.0 with no exception sucks) perspective, I would only be okay
with it as its own repository.


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