bcfg2 license?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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