On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 12:09 PM Dan Horák <d...@danny.cz> wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 16:24:03 +0200 > Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Dne 09. 09. 24 v 4:15 odp. Scott Talbert napsal(a): > > > On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Bellow is list of packages that have licenses that are neither valid as > > >> Callaway nor as SPDX. I.e. the license cannot be validated neither using > > >> 'license-validate' nor using 'license-validate --old'. > > >> > > >> swt2c perl-Data-Validate-IP > > > > > > I recently updated this package to use SPDX expressions: > > > > > > GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0 > > > > > > However, I'm just realizing that Artistic-1.0 is NOT a valid Fedora > > > license, which is probably why the package ended > > > up on this list. > > > > > > Since Fedora should be able to use this package under the > > > GPL-1.0-or-later license, should I just update the License > > > expression to that only? Or alternatively, should I request that > > > "GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0" be added as an > > > allowed license, as I see that "GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl" is > > > in the list. > > > > I would not try adding Artistic-1.0 into allowed ones: > > > > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/254 > > > > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/37 > > > > You can talk to upstream. I recently witnessed that upstream used > > GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0 while they > > **intended** to use GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl. > > thanks, "GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl" should fix collectl too
In the case of perl-Data-Validate-IP, the LICENSE file says === This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. Terms of the Perl programming language system itself a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License" === which is followed by what appears to be the text of GPLv1, then by what I think is the text of OSI Artistic 1.0 (that is, matching SPDX Artistic-1.0, not SPDX Artistic-1.0-Perl). We know that "the same terms as Perl 5" *ought* to mean (in SPDX terms) GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl, not GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0 and of course we also know that this is an extremely common licensing approach in the Perl community. So the upstream package is ambiguous. Common sense of course suggests they couldn't possibly care about the difference between these two versions of Artistic 1.0 (which were overlooked for ... ~20 years or more?). Most likely they reached for the text of Artistic-1.0 (not Artistic-1.0-Perl) because they assumed Artistic-1.0 *was* the Perl 5 Artistic 1.0 license. However, this should really be clarified with the upstream maintainer. If it were clear that Artistic-1.0 *was* intended, then we'd represent that as just `GPL-1.0-or-later` because Artistic-1.0 is *not-allowed* and while we have a notational exception for `GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl` I can't see a good justification for extending that to `GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0` merely because some Perl module maintainers are (understandably) confused about the multiple versions of Artistic 1.0. 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
