Hi there,

I was searching to find more information about the Fair License and found out 
it was mentioned here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main

The entry in the fedora wiki says it's FSF free, GPLv2 compliant, GPLv3 
compliant but I can't find any source for that (e.g. in FSF or GNU website like 
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html ). There's an article in 
wikipedia but it's missing any citation towards these claims. The license is in 
the list of approved OSI licenses as one can see 
http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical but that doesn't say much in 
regards to the 3 claims.

The closest thing I could find is the fact that in an OSI board meeting the 
WTFPL was considered redundant to the Fair License 
http://opensource.org/minutes20090304
FSF considers WTFPL a free software and GPL-compatible license 
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#WTFPL

Personally, after reading the license, I don't think that the claims are wrong 
but I'm not an expert and determining the status of a license through the 
status of another license being used as a proxy could be risky.

Are there any reliable sources towards these claims? Is there a reasoning on 
why they are mentioned in the fedora wiki article (and if so I'd be interested 
to know what the reasoning is) or does it require more research before stating 
these claims?

Kind Regards,
Vassilis Palassopoulos
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