https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522
--- Comment #43 from Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #40) > It is a Fedora policy that licenses allowed in Fedora must be free according > to the FSF. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main also says: > > This list is based on the licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation > > , OSI and consultation with Red Hat Legal. > and all the licenses in the list so far: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses > are approved by the FSF (in 2 cases, under certain conditions that are > required to be satisfied for software under those licenses to be allowed in > Fedora). > > Approving a license considered non-free by the FSF would be a significant > policy change that needs approval from the Council and that I am strongly > opposed against (and I hope I am not the only one). The policy does not actually state that all licenses has to be approved by the FSF. It just says that when we considering a license for Fedora we look at licenses approved by FSF, OSI and Red Hat legal. So in practice these 3 groups are likely to agree on a license in the vast majority of cases and thus all current licenses as you say are FSF approved, but the policy does not state that FSF approval is a hard requirement. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
