Restricted vs. allowed content

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 2 12:43:35 UTC 2013


On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:18:19 +0200
Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/02/2013 10:55 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> > AFAIK we will enforce the same licensing as Fedora (bad licenses
> > stuff can't be built in Copr), other than that no restrictions.
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Bad_Licenses
> 
> Hmm, why we can not allow e.g. "W3C Documentation License"? It is bad 
> because "Does not permit modification, different from W3C Software 
> License". Fedora need to do modification from time to time. But we do
> not.
> 
> Or some licenses, which permits commercial use? It is blocker for 
> Fedora. But it is blocker for COPR?
> 

We cannot host the files which are under a license we cannot distribute
with.

As to your specific license requests - you're going to have to take
those to legal at fedoraproject.org

I'm not a lawyer and I don't even want to be one :)

-sv


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