[Mageia-dev] Importing Licensing Policy

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Sat Mar 5 15:03:53 CET 2011


On 05.03.2011 11:38, Remy CLOUARD wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:23:25AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> On 28.02.2011 03:51, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>> On 09.01.2011 01:15, Remy CLOUARD wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I just started to import the Licensing policy from the Mandriva wiki.
>>>>
>>>> Here are notable changes:
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> - adding a complete list of license names (produced by rpmlint)
>>>
>>> This list directly contradicts the Fedora naming convention which we
>>> use, i.e. most of the names in the list are different from the ones we
>>> actually use.
>>
>> Removed.
>>
>> -- 
>> Anssi Hannula
> 
> All right, but where do one find the list of available license names ?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses

I think I mentioned in my earlier reply that the link was missing from
the wiki page (it existed in mdv wiki), though I forgot to fix it at the
same time it seems.

> I used rpmlint to produce this list, so if these licenses are wrong, we
> need some list of valid licenses names, so that we can fix rpmlint too.
> 
> As a side note, we will also have a lot of work to fix all the wrong
> license names in the existing packages
> 
> Regards,


-- 
Anssi Hannula


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