Request to relicense all CC0-1.0 code to MIT (or similar permissive license)

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 22 de gener de 2023, a les 14:12:32 (CET), Neal Gompa va 
escriure:
> Hey folks,
> 
> During a review for flatpak-kcm for inclusion in Fedora, I discovered
> that KDE currently licenses its CI scripts under the CC0 (SPDX:
> CC0-1.0) license.

You mean .gitlab-ci.yml files ?

Just scrub those from the tarball if those are causing you problems since 
those are in no way needed for the build. 

If scrubing them from the released tarballs is a problem for some reason you 
could even try to propose changes to our packaging scripts that remove those 
from the release tarballs, if they are not super intrusive i guess that they 
could be accepted by the release folk.

Honestly, this seems more a Fedora problem than a KDE problem.

Cheers,
  Albert

> This is no longer generally permitted in Fedora for
> software/code due to the explicit exclusion of patent license
> grants[1].
> 
> While I realize that the likelihood of practical issues around this is
> pretty low for the case that KDE has been licensing the CI scripts
> under, it does cause headaches for us. I've made a request for a
> exception[2] so that we can continue to ship KDE software without
> having to take extraordinary actions, but I would like to request that
> KDE disallow code to be licensed under CC0-1.0 and recommend all
> existing code under that license to be transitioned to an accepted
> permissive license. My suggestion would be to recommend transitioning
> to the MIT license[3].
> 
> Thanks in advance and best regards,
> Neal
> 
> P.S.: I originally sent this to kde-licensing at kde.org, which
> apparently doesn't exist. Sorry for those CC'd getting this twice.
> Oops!
> 
> [1]:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org
> /message/RRYM3CLYJYW64VSQIXY6IF3TCDZGS6LM/ [2]:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org
> /message/Q67KFP4NT3WEL2Z75BYCXMP2IOQHLBJT/ [3]:
> https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT