<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:13 AM Neal Gompa <<a href="mailto:ngompa13@gmail.com">ngompa13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hey folks,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Neal,</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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During a review for flatpak-kcm for inclusion in Fedora, I discovered<br>
that KDE currently licenses its CI scripts under the CC0 (SPDX:<br>
CC0-1.0) license. This is no longer generally permitted in Fedora for<br>
software/code due to the explicit exclusion of patent license<br>
grants[1].<br>
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While I realize that the likelihood of practical issues around this is<br>
pretty low for the case that KDE has been licensing the CI scripts<br>
under, it does cause headaches for us. I've made a request for a<br>
exception[2] so that we can continue to ship KDE software without<br>
having to take extraordinary actions, but I would like to request that<br>
KDE disallow code to be licensed under CC0-1.0 and recommend all<br>
existing code under that license to be transitioned to an accepted<br>
permissive license. My suggestion would be to recommend transitioning<br>
to the MIT license[3].<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure where this is coming from, given that the vast bulk of our CI files are just reference statements for Gitlab to sysadmin/ci-utilities, which likely doesn't meet the threshold for being a copyrightable work.</div><div>As for the content of sysadmin/ci-utilities, it isn't under CC0.</div><div><br></div><div>At best this likely only covers those projects with custom CI.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ben</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks in advance and best regards,<br>
Neal<br>
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P.S.: I originally sent this to <a href="mailto:kde-licensing@kde.org" target="_blank">kde-licensing@kde.org</a>, which<br>
apparently doesn't exist. Sorry for those CC'd getting this twice.<br>
Oops!<br>
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[1]: <a href="https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RRYM3CLYJYW64VSQIXY6IF3TCDZGS6LM/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RRYM3CLYJYW64VSQIXY6IF3TCDZGS6LM/</a><br>
[2]: <a href="https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q67KFP4NT3WEL2Z75BYCXMP2IOQHLBJT/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q67KFP4NT3WEL2Z75BYCXMP2IOQHLBJT/</a><br>
[3]: <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT</a><br>
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真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!<br>
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