commit: 0ee58f68a2e0cf4a12f00bbb1124ed52e3850cd8 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Sun Jun 10 12:03:55 2018 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sun Jun 10 18:42:07 2018 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=0ee58f68
glep-0076: Rationale for licensing of projects. Most of this results from a discussion on 2018-01-24 in #gentoo-council amongst K_F, mgorny, prometheanfire, rich0, and ulm. See also this wiki talk page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User_talk:Aliceinwire/CopyrightPolicy#Licensing_of_Gentoo_projects glep-0076.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index 1eccecf..dc83501 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Type: Informational Status: Draft Version: 1 Created: 2013-04-23 -Last-Modified: 2018-06-07 +Last-Modified: 2018-06-10 Post-History: Content-Type: text/x-rst --- @@ -220,6 +220,31 @@ source projects. Contributors would be able to freely choose whether they sign the FLA document or not. +Licensing of Projects +--------------------- + +The Social Contract mentions GPL-2 and CC-BY-SA-2.0, both with the +option to use them in a later version ("at our discretion"). In order +to facilitate interchange of software between different projects, we +aim for uniformity of their licensing. Therefore, items a) and b) +explicitly recommend the use of GPL-2+ and CC-BY-SA-3.0. The latter +is restricted to be used for documentation, because Creative Commons +themselves recommend against using their licenses for software +[#CC-SOFTWARE]_. + +Other GPL-compatible free software licenses that are not explicitly +listed are allowed by item c). This covers cases where compatibility +to licenses used by upstream projects is necessary. (For example, +the Gentoo BSD project may want to use the 2-clause or 3-clause BSD +license). + +By default, GPL-incompatible licenses (e.g., the CDDL) are not +allowed, because their use would hinder interchange of code between +Gentoo projects. However, the Foundation can grant exceptions to +this, as long as the license in question is a free software or open +source license. + + DCO Changes ----------- @@ -285,6 +310,9 @@ References .. [#FLA] FSFE Legal: Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA), https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html +.. [#CC-SOFTWARE] Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software? + https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software + .. [#DEBIAN-LICENSE] [debian-legal] License of the GPL license, https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/04/msg00006.html
