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Re: Legality of Fedora in production environment
- From: Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Cc: Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa redhat com>, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk redhat com>
- Subject: Re: Legality of Fedora in production environment
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:25:27 -0400
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 23:27 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
>
> >
> > Then I guess the burden should be on Fedora in this case. Asking the
> > developer of a package (or a packager) to provide a legally verified
> > translation to English is a bit too much IMO.
>
> Fedora does not have the legal resources to pursue translations of every
> new license that people come up. If the developer does not want to have
> this trouble then they should just adopt more commonly used licenses
> instead of insisting on more unique licenses that adds to the burden of
> maintainers, redistributors and increasing the potential for Free
> software silos.
>
> We cannot accept the legal risk of including software under licenses
> that we don't understand.
I guess Fedora can set up a rule for which software that do not have the
binding license in English cannot be accepted.
But I don't think you will please developers of other countries.
I think a compromises should be attempted.
Simo.
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