Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (798 mails)

[Ciaran Farrell <cfarrell@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 02 Feb 2011 13:32:46 jdd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I always try to make things better. This other thread I don't want to
> quote makes me ask if there is somewhere
>
> * a list of the licences openSUSE accepts for free (OSS) repository
> * a list of the licences accepted for the non free repository (non-OSS)
> * a list of the licence openSUSE refuses at all
>
> preferably motivated
>
> we, at the LDP, did something similar with the result here
> (http://wiki.tldp.org/LdpWikiDefaultLicence) - it's just an example,
> as openSUSE have to cope non only with texts but also with programms.
>
> We shouldn't have to refere to any non-openSUSE page for that matter.
> Of course if this don't yet exists, it should be created with the
> backup of Novell lawyers if possible
>
> jdd

There is currently no official list. We had some discussions about creating 
one. In doing so, we found ourselves to be leaning close to what Fedora has 
already put together, both from the licenses that they have, how they classify 
them, why they classify them as well as the RPM license tags that they use.

The openSUSE project currently accepts licenses conforming to the OSI 
definition (individual licenses, I mean - I'm not addressing 
combinations/derivations/collections). There are exceptions where the package 
in question contains freely redistributable firmware that is unmodifiable 
(mostly wireless firmware) or data/content only.

Thus, if somebody wants to start such a page on the openSUSE wiki, I'd be glad 
to help out with it.

Ciaran


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