Dne 5.5.2017 v 20:49 Richard Fontana napsal(a): > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:28:34PM -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: >> I liked Miro's suggestion of hardlinking the licenses, but it's >> important to sure they are actually identical with checksums (i.e., >> don't just use the License field because what if the upstream project >> subtly adjusted the license file?) > Right, it would be necessary for someone maintaining a package to > verify that what looks like a common license actually matches the > reference copy. (I don't know if Debian does this.) In some cases, > non-identical files could be determined nonetheless to match according > to some criteria. As an example, the GitHub 'choose-a-license' feature > seems to be resulting in a class of noncanonical common license texts > that differ from the real authentic copy only in nonsubstantive ways > (e.g. whitespace).
And copyright holder typically on the top of MIT ... I would love to see some package with the canonical licenses as a start. That would be so much better source of official Fedora licenses then the current wiki, assuming they are machine readable ... Vít _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
