Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>]

Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 09 Juli 2009 schrieb Michal Vyskocil:
> > On Thursday 09 of July 2009 11:38:59 Juergen Weigert wrote:
> > > On Jul 09, 09 11:01:36 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:59:45AM +0200, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
> > > > > On Thursday 09 of July 2009 08:50:54 Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Today I got a bunch of new packages rejected for Factory because of
> > > > > > an inexact license tag in the spec file ("GPL" instead of "GPLv2 or
> > > > > > later"). How is a packager supposed to know?
> > > The packager currently has no chance to know that.
> > > Only resource was the PDB, which was internal to SUSE.
> > > since we are opening up, the PDB is no longer authorative.
> > >
> > > Until we have a sound set of nstructions in place, including the list of
> > > accepted liense names, we shall be very liberal in what we accept.
> > Can we use http://pack.suse.cz/mvyskocil/licenses.txt as a base of the
> > list? It contains all existing License: fields in SUSE. Simple grep -v ';'
> > licenses.txt  should remove packages under several licenses
>
> I think this is one big misunderstanding caused by insufficient tools. We 
> will 
> fix the tools in the next weeks and till then we will not block packages with
> unknown licenses.
>
> The problem arises from three reasons:
>  1. we want to leave the .spec files untouched when checking in
>  2. packagers can't know the license of the package unless they have written
>     all the code herself.
>  3. a lot of our packages relied on the license being overwritten on commit.
>
> So for the next time we will live with the fact that our tools are not ready
> and that our packages will have possibly incorrect license tags in factory.
>
> In the future, we will overwrite the license in the spec file once the exact
> value and will possibly recheckin all packages that are affected.
>
> Greetings, Stephan

We should create a list similar to this one[1] and add it to our
Packaging Guidelines. Ciaran told me that the Legal team is working on
it a month ago, but I received no reply since then :-(

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses

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