Re: SPDX license review requests

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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[Add Martin Schulze, as he holds copyright of dir_colors.5.]

On 6/29/23 19:01, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2023-06-29 10:01, Lameter, Christopher wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
>>>       >> VERBATIM_TWO_PARA
>>>       >>      This license was first used in the Linux man-pages in 
>>> version
>>>       >>      3.07 (year 2008) in a single page:
>>>       >>
>>>       >>              move_pages.2
>>>       >>                      Added by Michael Kerrisk 
>>> <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
>>>       >>                      but Copyright (C) 2006 Silicon 
>>> Graphics, Inc.
>>>       >>                                        Christoph Lameter
>>>       >>
>>>       >>      It was later reused in another page:
>> The manpage was written by me and later edited by Michael as far as I 
>> remember.
>>>       >>
>>>       >>              migrate_pages.2
>>>       >>                      Copyright 2009 Intel Corporation
>>>       >> .\"                Author: Andi Kleen
>>>       >> .\" Based on the move_pages manpage which was
>>>       >> .\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>>>       >> .\"                               Christoph Lameter
>>>       >>
>>>       >>      This license is the one considered non-free by Fedora, 
>>> and which
>>>       >>      we need to drop.  Luckily it's only two pages, so they 
>>> could be
>>>       >>      reasonably rewritten in a worst case.
>> The licensing was GPL and not a proprietary one.
>>>       So, given this, if you give consent to change your pages to use
>>>       Linux-man-pages-copyleft, I'll do so provided for the pages 
>>> that are
>>>       completely yours, and will keep in mind that when others agree, 
>>> I'll also
>>>       change the pages that are shared.
>> I have no objections.
> 
> Updating these licences are really nice to haves for this project.
> 
> Just to be clear, the FSF and Fedora issue is only with *dir_colors*(5) 
> licensed under *LDPv1* which contains the contentious clause:
> 
>      "c) You must not add notes to the Document implying that the reader 
> had better read something produced using Texinfo."
> 
>      https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/211
> 
>      https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1957
> 
> which restricts modification, especially by GNU or other projects which 
> may wish to offer and promote alternative doc formats or interfaces.
> 
> LDPv2 requires notifying the author of modifications by email if 
> provided, and suggested authors could add a generic clause c) 
> prohibiting modifications without author consent.
> 
> TLDP is now by default under GFDLv1.2+.
> 
> Another problematic licence is *JSON*, which contains the clause:
> 
>      "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."
> 
> restricting use with non-specific subjective terms, unlike similar 
> licences with specific objective restrictions, like not being used for 
> anything related to animal testing or nuclear weapons.
> 

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