[Fedora-legal-list] Re: AI/ML Model and Pre-Trained Weight Packaging in Fedora

2024-03-04 Thread Ben Beasley
, as defined in [3]. – Ben Beasley (FAS: music) [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/stockfish [2] https://tests.stockfishchess.org/nns [3] https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/blob/e67cc979fd2c0e66dfc2b2f2daa0117458cfc462/src/evaluate.h#L42-L43 On 3/1/24 5:19 PM, Richard

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Question about public domain file in dictd

2024-02-28 Thread Ben Beasley
Speaking as an experienced packager, not a member of the Fedora legal team: Although some authors conflate it with “public domain,” CC0-1.0 is just one type of ultra-permissive license. It is not-allowed for code in Fedora due to concerns about patent-related language in the actual CC0-1.0

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: python-dateutil SPDX license -- some code is Apache-2.0 and all code is BSD-3-Clause

2023-10-16 Thread Ben Beasley
Speaking as an unqualified observer, as I see it, there are three kinds of work in this project: - Work after 2017-12-01, which is BSD-3-Clause (only). - Old work for which the maintainers could not secure consent for relicensing, which is Apache-2.0 (only). - Old work for which the

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Proposal for '/usr/share/licenses/common-licenses/'

2023-07-26 Thread Ben Beasley
On 7/26/23 1:53 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: Well in my proposal we're really only talking about a handful of license texts that are known to get (typographically) updated only very rarely and in nonsubstantive ways. The idea of having all packages symbolically link to hundreds of

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: SPDX Statistics - R.U.R. edition

2023-02-17 Thread Ben Beasley
There are two relevant questions for mass conversion: - Is there an unambiguous mapping from Callaway ID to SPDX ID? - Are there other licenses that *should* be in the expression since we no longer use the “effective license” concept? The license-fedora2spdx tool can answer the first but not

[Fedora-legal-list] License change: snakemake 7.20.0 is MIT AND Unlicense

2023-01-23 Thread Ben Beasley
The entire project remains (SPDX) MIT, except: - versioneer.py is Unlicense (but is not packaged in the binary RPMs) - snakemake/_version.py says:     This file is released into the public domain. which would be LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain, except that the comments in versioneer.py make

[Fedora-legal-list] License updates: c4core, grpc, libfplll, python-graph-tool, python-mapbox-earcut

2023-01-11 Thread Ben Beasley
I am about to update a few packages that use header-only libraries (and which do not use them only for tests that are not installed, as is often the case with e.g. doctest-static) to include the licenses of those libraries in their SPDX license expressions. The rationale is that header-only

[Fedora-legal-list] License correction for libIDL-doc

2022-10-17 Thread Ben Beasley
While converting libIDL to SPDX (LGPLv2+ → LGPL-2.0-or-later), I noticed that the documentation is actually GPLv3+. The libIDL-doc subpackage’s License field is therefore corrected from LGPLv2+ to GPL-3.0-or-later. – Ben Beasley (FAS music) ___ legal

[Fedora-legal-list] Correction of libpri License field

2022-09-22 Thread Ben Beasley
for legal review, and the License field will be further updated to use SPDX notation once that process is complete. https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/75 https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/76 – Ben Beasley (FAS music

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Modified Apache Software licenses

2022-08-17 Thread Ben Beasley
, whether in Source or Object form, except as required in copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices. –  Ben Beasley (FAS music) On 8/17/22 07:57, Benson Muite wrote: The software wrk[0] is currently under review[1]. It uses a modified Apache Software license[2].  Is this something

[Fedora-legal-list] Updating several packages to SPDX

2022-08-01 Thread Ben Beasley
+” to “MPL-1.1 OR GPL-2.0-or-later OR LGPL-2.1-or-later”. – Ben Beasley ___ legal mailing list -- legal@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to legal-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: API change and License change: python-ezdxf 0.18

2022-07-30 Thread Ben Beasley
expression, and I will update the PR before merging. – Ben Beasley On Sat, Jul 30, 2022, at 6:04 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 11:44 AM Ben Beasley wrote: >> >> In python-ezdxf 0.18, a few new Python modules are included that are >> derived from other

[Fedora-legal-list] API change and License change: python-ezdxf 0.18

2022-07-30 Thread Ben Beasley
, and so the License will become:    (MIT AND (ISC AND MIT) AND (AGPL-3.0-only AND MIT)) In accordance with the updated requirements for license changes, I have directed this message to both the devel list and the legal list. – Ben Beasley [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-ezdxf

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: SPDX Change for F37?

2022-04-22 Thread Ben Beasley
Even with that approach, a lot of Fedora packagers like to use conditionals and preserve the ability to do fast-forward merges to the EPELs as well. I’m not sure there is a precedent for a mandatory mass spec file change breaking that workflow; I would expect significant pushback on the second

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Steinberg VST3 License question

2021-07-29 Thread Ben Beasley
of the GPLv3 provides an “escape hatch” such that VST3 could be acceptable in Fedora after all. – Ben Beasley On 7/29/21 2:46 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 11:33 AM Pamela Chestek wrote: IMO, a requirement that a logo be included is not an additional restriction permitted

[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Curious maybe FOSS license that I can't identify

2021-05-30 Thread Ben Beasley
in the past. Search https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main for “modif” to find examples. There appears to be an exception for binary firmware blobs, which does not apply here. – Ben Beasley On 5/30/21 12:00 PM, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: Hello, In a review I came across this License