Re: Flatpak Manifest Licensing
On Freitag, 19. Mai 2023 02:26:37 CEST Justin Zobel wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > As Binary Factory is to be shut down soon we are moving the Flatpak > manifests to their individual GitLab repositories. > > Most of this is fairly simple, however, some GitLab repositories have > enabled reuse linting (which is great). The Flatpak manifests I have > come across so far have not had any licensing information included. This > email is just to start a discussion about what everyone's thoughts are > about which license to apply for them. > > The GitLab CI files are licensed as CC0-1.0 and I'm thinking that this > might be a suitable license as the Flatpak manifest files are simply > text files. > # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: None > # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 We can make license recommendations, but especially for the existing ones I'd say this is something their respective authors need to decide/agree to, we can't just pick whatever we like if there is no license information. Regards, Volker signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Flatpak Manifest Licensing
Le ven. 19 mai 2023 à 02:27, Justin Zobel a écrit : > Hey Everyone, > > As Binary Factory is to be shut down soon we are moving the Flatpak > manifests to their individual GitLab repositories. > > Most of this is fairly simple, however, some GitLab repositories have > enabled reuse linting (which is great). The Flatpak manifests I have > come across so far have not had any licensing information included. This > email is just to start a discussion about what everyone's thoughts are > about which license to apply for them. > > The GitLab CI files are licensed as CC0-1.0 and I'm thinking that this > might be a suitable license as the Flatpak manifest files are simply > text files. > # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: None > # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0 > > Let me know your thoughts. > > Justin > Hi, is this on what Neelaksh worked during SoK? For GCompris, he added it with CopyrightText: None and CC0-1.0 like you say and it's fine with us: https://invent.kde.org/education/gcompris/-/commit/3cb28877c95a84e2c1d8062e2fb6436ef3953024 Cheers, Johnny
