On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:13 AM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, > Hi Neal, > > During a review for flatpak-kcm for inclusion in Fedora, I discovered > that KDE currently licenses its CI scripts under the CC0 (SPDX: > CC0-1.0) license. This is no longer generally permitted in Fedora for > software/code due to the explicit exclusion of patent license > grants[1]. > > While I realize that the likelihood of practical issues around this is > pretty low for the case that KDE has been licensing the CI scripts > under, it does cause headaches for us. I've made a request for a > exception[2] so that we can continue to ship KDE software without > having to take extraordinary actions, but I would like to request that > KDE disallow code to be licensed under CC0-1.0 and recommend all > existing code under that license to be transitioned to an accepted > permissive license. My suggestion would be to recommend transitioning > to the MIT license[3]. > Not sure where this is coming from, given that the vast bulk of our CI files are just reference statements for Gitlab to sysadmin/ci-utilities, which likely doesn't meet the threshold for being a copyrightable work. As for the content of sysadmin/ci-utilities, it isn't under CC0. At best this likely only covers those projects with custom CI. Cheers, Ben > > Thanks in advance and best regards, > Neal > > P.S.: I originally sent this to kde-licens...@kde.org, which > apparently doesn't exist. Sorry for those CC'd getting this twice. > Oops! > > [1]: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/le...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RRYM3CLYJYW64VSQIXY6IF3TCDZGS6LM/ > [2]: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/le...@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q67KFP4NT3WEL2Z75BYCXMP2IOQHLBJT/ > [3]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT > > -- > 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! >
