[Mageia-dev] Importing Licensing Policy

Sat Mar 5 15:03:53 CET 2011

On 05.03.2011 11:38, Remy CLOUARD wrote:
+> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:23:25AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+>> On 28.02.2011 03:51, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+>>> On 09.01.2011 01:15, Remy CLOUARD wrote:
+>>>> Hello,
+>>>>
+>>>> I just started to import the Licensing policy from the Mandriva wiki.
+>>>>
+>>>> Here are notable changes:
+>>>>
+>>> [...]
+>>>> - adding a complete list of license names (produced by rpmlint)
+>>>
+>>> This list directly contradicts the Fedora naming convention which we
+>>> use, i.e. most of the names in the list are different from the ones we
+>>> actually use.
+>>
+>> Removed.
+>>
+>> -- 
+>> Anssi Hannula
+> 
+> All right, but where do one find the list of available license names ?
+
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses
+
+I think I mentioned in my earlier reply that the link was missing from
+the wiki page (it existed in mdv wiki), though I forgot to fix it at the
+same time it seems.
+
+> I used rpmlint to produce this list, so if these licenses are wrong, we
+> need some list of valid licenses names, so that we can fix rpmlint too.
+> 
+> As a side note, we will also have a lot of work to fix all the wrong
+> license names in the existing packages
+> 
+> Regards,
+
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+