On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 12:38, Richard Fontana <rfont...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Björn Persson: > > > Does that also apply to licenses that explicitly say how they may be > > combined? Are we supposed to write "GPL-3.0-or-later AND > > GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-only" or do those > > still combine into GPL-3.0-only? > > They don't "combine". The idea that they combine in some sort of logical > sense regardless of the facts of a given packaging situation reflects a > misunderstanding of the GPL (more specifically, a misunderstanding of > FSF-popularized orthodox GPL interpretation). BTW this is also a problem I > see in the likely use of the old license compatibility chart. > > It is pretty well accepted in the community that you can redistribute > GPLv2-or-later code as 'GPLv2-only', though this has only rarely been done. > However, the -or-later form of licensing is basically a kind of disjunctive > dual license and at least for now we are retaining the existing policy of > preserving, and noting in metadata, the existence of such an upstream dual > license, except for the special case of a dual license where one part is > not an allowed license (with a further preserved exception for Perl > GPL|Artistic code). > > Since a lot of code is going to have a LOT of different licences which for some seem to grow every minor upstream release it would be better for the RPM License tag to have something like: License: It's complicated. (Please see /usr/share/<package-name>/licences for a complete list.) otherwise I am worried we will run into some sort of string length limit in RPM or other tooling. > Richard > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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