On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 05:19:59PM +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM Germano Massullo > <germano.massu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Richard Fontana has given his answer to the license question > > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/668#note_2600398017 > > > > I am planning to resume eza packaging soon > > I wouldn't say that "I haven't looked closely enough to say it's not > OK" is an endorsement ... > > From what I can tell, the project was unilaterally relicensed from MIT > to EUPL-1.2 *without getting consent from previous contributors*. In > general, I don't think that this is OK. > > Additionally, the thing about dual-licensing in the referenced PR / > commit message is also a lie - the project wasn't switched from "MIT" > to an "MIT / EUPL-1.2" dual-license - the EUPL-1.2 is now the *only* > project license.
I'm not sure that's correct. If I look at the commit which does the relicensing: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/pull/1155/commits/0681085fe90f6277e162af4d221f5a858d614d86 for the majority of files, there are now 2 SPDX-License-Identifier tags present, one saying EUPL-1.2 and one saying MIT. This is valid as the person changing it can retroactively declare their own contributions to be EUPL-1.2 while leaving 3rd parties' being MIT. Some are EUPL-1.2 only, but most of those seem to be authored exclusively by the person who did the reclicense, or have only trivial changes from 3rd parties. This is a little unusual as I would have expected just one SPDX tag with "EUPL-1.2 AND MIT", but aside from that, it doesn't seem like they're doing something intentionally bad with the license change. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ 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
