[fab] Fedora as Free Software?

[Rex Dieter]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

>     Ok here is what is out of Fedora development this morning.. hoping
>     that the License tag is accurate. There are about 238 packages that
>     need 'cleanups' in one form or another.. my counting had to be done
>     by hand because style issues.
> 
>     Total Packages:         1155
>     GPL Only:                504
>     LGPL Only:               137
>     MIT/X11:                 119
>     BSD:                      58
>     Artistic/GPL:             42
>     MIT:                      16
>     GPL/LGPL:                 14
>     Public Domain:            17
> Is it worth filing bugs against the 200+ packages that need a cleanup? 

I'd suggest waiting at least until a license format standard/guideline 
is chosen.

> And who would formulate a standard Licensing schema for this? [Again is 
> it worth it.. beyond pub arguments?] 

I'd argue this should fall under Fedora Packaging Guidelines.

-- Rex