On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:53 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Separately, I wonder if Fedora really needs separate categories for > > software and documentation, if the criteria for approval are basically > > the same -- essentially, whether the license is libre (by Fedora's own > > assessment) -- except that documentation licenses are seen as normally > > unsuitable for software. It is clear (to me at least) that any good > > Fedora software license should be good for documentation as well, if > > only because in practice documentation in packages is often covered by > > the software license -- indeed, this is probably much more common than > > cases where a special documentation license is used. > Interesting question here... perhaps for the time being we keep the > distinction, if nothing else than the ease of human minds tendency to > think about software and documentation as being different. Again, the > rationale and explanation should be explicit in the legal/licensing > pages. (seems like some of this email will be a helpful start for said > explanations!) I agree, should keep the distinction for now. I am a little worried that there is some assumed line between "non-documentation content" and "documentation" that has been formulated out of convenience (e.g., if some file is under a no-derivatives type of license, Fedora has struggled to see that type of file as a "non-documentation content" file rather than a "documentation content" file. But that's just a hunch right now, and anyway could be better addressed with more clearly defined categories and guidance. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
