From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5289B138334 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52DE1E0996; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2B12E0992 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oystercatcher.gentoo.org (oystercatcher.gentoo.org [148.251.78.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97163335CA1 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by oystercatcher.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBDC2EB for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:56 +0000 (UTC) From: "Ulrich Müller" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Ulrich Müller" Message-ID: <1528656127.0ee58f68a2e0cf4a12f00bbb1124ed52e3850cd8.ulm@gentoo> Subject: [gentoo-commits] data/glep:master commit in: / X-VCS-Repository: data/glep X-VCS-Files: glep-0076.rst X-VCS-Directories: / X-VCS-Committer: ulm X-VCS-Committer-Name: Ulrich Müller X-VCS-Revision: 0ee58f68a2e0cf4a12f00bbb1124ed52e3850cd8 X-VCS-Branch: master Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 18:42:56 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 94003d50-fbc7-4a97-8f2e-c2363108b085 X-Archives-Hash: d47cb785d3f87f10c6a086204796341a commit: 0ee58f68a2e0cf4a12f00bbb1124ed52e3850cd8 Author: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> AuthorDate: Sun Jun 10 12:03:55 2018 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller gentoo org> CommitDate: Sun Jun 10 18:42:07 2018 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?id=0ee58f68 glep-0076: Rationale for licensing of projects. Most of this results from a discussion on 2018-01-24 in #gentoo-council amongst K_F, mgorny, prometheanfire, rich0, and ulm. See also this wiki talk page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User_talk:Aliceinwire/CopyrightPolicy#Licensing_of_Gentoo_projects glep-0076.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/glep-0076.rst b/glep-0076.rst index 1eccecf..dc83501 100644 --- a/glep-0076.rst +++ b/glep-0076.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Type: Informational Status: Draft Version: 1 Created: 2013-04-23 -Last-Modified: 2018-06-07 +Last-Modified: 2018-06-10 Post-History: Content-Type: text/x-rst --- @@ -220,6 +220,31 @@ source projects. Contributors would be able to freely choose whether they sign the FLA document or not. +Licensing of Projects +--------------------- + +The Social Contract mentions GPL-2 and CC-BY-SA-2.0, both with the +option to use them in a later version ("at our discretion"). In order +to facilitate interchange of software between different projects, we +aim for uniformity of their licensing. Therefore, items a) and b) +explicitly recommend the use of GPL-2+ and CC-BY-SA-3.0. The latter +is restricted to be used for documentation, because Creative Commons +themselves recommend against using their licenses for software +[#CC-SOFTWARE]_. + +Other GPL-compatible free software licenses that are not explicitly +listed are allowed by item c). This covers cases where compatibility +to licenses used by upstream projects is necessary. (For example, +the Gentoo BSD project may want to use the 2-clause or 3-clause BSD +license). + +By default, GPL-incompatible licenses (e.g., the CDDL) are not +allowed, because their use would hinder interchange of code between +Gentoo projects. However, the Foundation can grant exceptions to +this, as long as the license in question is a free software or open +source license. + + DCO Changes ----------- @@ -285,6 +310,9 @@ References .. [#FLA] FSFE Legal: Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA), https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html +.. [#CC-SOFTWARE] Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software? + https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-commons-license-to-software + .. [#DEBIAN-LICENSE] [debian-legal] License of the GPL license, https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/04/msg00006.html