On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:35:08AM +0000, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > One thing that comes to my mind with this proposal is that we still need > > some way to vet licenses. Today, this is done via the package review > > process, and in my mind is the primary purpose of package review. If we > > started having upstream compatible registries, I suppose we could introduce > > a review process for adding packages to the registries to solve this > > concern. > Vetting of licenses is only one aspect of the review but not its sole > purpose. Apart from all the other checks to ensure that the software > follows current best practices in software development, we also verify > the correctness of the software during the review.
That's true, but I think fundamentally I agree with Randy: if the software is terrible in some way but still useful to users (hello, Chromium!), we probably want to find some room for it in Fedora somehow. But we absolutely need to be sure about licenses. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ 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
