bcfg2 license?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 19 18:29:53 UTC 2006
Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:44:54PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>
>>> Which we are about to dump, or not?
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis
>> We arent planning to dump 4-clause BSD licensed software. It qualifies
>> as a Free software license. The analysis page above is only about
>> auditing packages to find out whether any of them are under non-free or
>> proprietary licenses.
>
> But weren't there recent efforts to drop OSI and go FSF GPL compatible
> only so that RMS knightifies Fedora?
There are many GPL incompatible Free software licenses and we dont plan
on dropping them. 4-clause BSD is one of these GPL incompatible Free
software licenses. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html.
A change in the guidelines from FSF or OSI list to both or FSF only
might not affect us.
One of them is the reciprocal license
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/rpl.php) which FSF sees as a
non-free license and none of Fedora packages use and the other one is
RealNetworks Public Source License
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/real.php) only used by Helix Player
which is pending on FSF to clarify their view but I think is likely to
qualify from a superficial look. How many people are going to bother
about us dropping Helix player anyway?
Rahul
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