[Mageia-dev] Importing Licensing Policy

Sat Mar 5 19:34:42 CET 2011

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
+
+Ok, I’ve done a little analysis of our packages with a little dirty
+script to grab licenses from SVN:
+http://pastebin.com/q2s4G0Gy
+
+It turns out that the majority of our packages have wrong License Names.
+
+I used the following yaml file to generate this list:
+http://pastebin.com/hNYGdDLf
+
+The most common case is GPL being stated without the versions or a +.
+A common error is also to have LGPLv2.1, while it should be LGPLv2 or
+LGPLv2+
+here is the list of affected packages:
+http://pastebin.com/YYDyHe8X
+
+Also, if a license looks like another one it should be appended the
+-like suffix. But sometimes you don’t have the hyphen or you can have
+“style” instead:
+http://pastebin.com/kyvLp9jG
+
+Also, the convention is to use the short name for the license, here are
+some of the affected packages:
+http://pastebin.com/JfAzMQPG
+
+Some just have the wrong name:
+http://pastebin.com/DkRfwD8u
+
+-> example: Artistic/GPL should be: GPL+ or Artistic
+
+There is a remaining list of more uncommon patterns, these could be
+either a wrong name, or a short name not being used, I was too lazy to
+sort them: http://pastebin.com/uTQtryWW
+
+In total, 2026 packages are affected out of the 6k we have in svn
+
+It could be nice if you fix them when you encounter them.
+
+For the most common ones, maybe we can script the fix (like for PHP
+License -> PHP or the perl packages.
+
+Now I need to provide a patch for rpmlint to take this list into
+account.
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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