From: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-nfp] [PATCH 1/4] Social contract: Change OSI approved to FSF approved
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:44:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240719054431.2580-2-ulm@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240719054431.2580-1-ulm@gentoo.org>
Rationale:
- The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License is approved by
the FSF but not by the OSI.
- The OSI has approved some dubious licenses (e.g. Watcom-1.0) which
we do not want.
- FSF approved is more in line with the term "free software" (instead
of "open source") that is used throughout.
- GLEP 76 says "approved as GPL compatible by the Free Software
Foundation" (which is a stronger requirement).
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
---
get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md b/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md
index 6972245..36f2e35 100644
--- a/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md
+++ b/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md
@@ -32,11 +32,10 @@ under the GNU General Public License version 2 (or later, at our discretion) or
Any external contributions to Gentoo (in the form of freely-distributable sources, binaries, metadata or documentation) may be incorporated into Gentoo
provided that we are legally entitled to do so.
However, Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License,
-the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the Open Source Initiative ([OSI](https://www.opensource.org/licenses)).
+the Creative Commons - Attribution/Share Alike or some other license approved by the Free Software Foundation ([FSF](https://www.fsf.org/licensing/)).
<div class="alert alert-success">
-Note: We are considering extending the above clause to require that all core Gentoo components must conform
-to a license approved by the OSI and Free Software Foundation (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/">FSF</a>).
+Note: Details of our copyright policy are regulated by [GLEP 76](https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0076.html).
</div>
## We will give back to the free software community
--
2.45.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-19 5:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-19 5:44 [gentoo-nfp] [PATCH 0/4] Some updates to the Social Contract Ulrich Müller
2024-07-19 5:44 ` Ulrich Müller [this message]
2024-07-19 16:55 ` [gentoo-nfp] [PATCH 1/4] Social contract: Change OSI approved to FSF approved Robin H. Johnson
2024-07-19 19:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-07-19 20:44 ` Robin H. Johnson
2024-07-19 5:44 ` [gentoo-nfp] [PATCH 2/4] Social contract: Exceptions to the public bug policy Ulrich Müller
2024-07-19 5:44 ` [gentoo-nfp] [PATCH 3/4] Social contract: Update spelling of CC-BY-SA license Ulrich Müller
2024-07-19 5:44 ` [gentoo-nfp] [PATCH 4/4] Social contract: Restore Gentoo metastructure link Ulrich Müller
2024-07-19 22:27 ` [gentoo-nfp] [PATCH 0/4] Some updates to the Social Contract Michael Orlitzky
2024-07-19 23:20 ` Ulrich Mueller
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