On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 02:54:13PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 2:47 PM Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > Dne 17. 07. 24 v 15:45 Richard Fontana napsal(a): > > > > I think it's "fine" in theory, but somewhat risky. I imagine that in > > > some cases it won't be clear whether a particular version mixes BUSL > > > (at various stages of the process towards the "change date") and > > > post-BUSL licenses. And if we concluded that the change date had > > > occurred for everything, we might want to require some further action, > > > at a minimum documenting the conclusion (not just in the license tag) > > > and probably also at least including a copy of the post-BUSL allowed > > > license. > > > > > > Chm, I wonder how to for example apply security fix? Imagine there is > > some security issue fixed in the most recent version, will we > > reimplement such patch? > > Good example. We generally won't be able to backport a BUSL-licensed > security fix to a now-free old version. Maybe reimplementing a patch > will be a solution.
That gets questionable if the "reimplemented" patch ends up being effectively (or actually) identical to the official patch, due to the neccessity of the technical approach to fix the issue. 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 :| -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to legal-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/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
