[License-review] Legacy Approval, Licnese of Jam

Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 23:04:08 UTC 2021


Richard Fontana wrote:
 > I don't know if OSI should start granting legacy approval to the large
 > numbers of licenses of this sort [...]

How large exactly?

In the same "Copyright only" category, in Fedora main repositories, I 
see something like 100 packages with ~20 license combinations from ~30 
projects. Is that right?

Most of these mention other copyright tags as well, so the "Copyright 
only" parts of those packages may be large or small. A few don't mention 
anything else though: for instance TeX Live packages, man-pages-ko, 
symlinks and perl-Crypt-Blowfish (BSD variants focused on the 
advertising clause? It has a few dependencies: 
https://metacpan.org/requires/module/Crypt::Blowfish ).

Best regards,
	Federico

P.s.: First message for me here, though I met several of you all a few 
times at FOSDEM and CopyleftConf and I've been reading this list for 
Wikimedia purposes for a while. I hope I'm doing this right!

P.p.s.: Quick queries.

$ dnf info --all --repo fedora | grep -B10 "Copyright only" | grep ^Name 
| sort -u | cut -d: -f2

cvs-contrib
dash
docbook-dtds
dumpasn1
fedora-gnat-project-common
gpm
gpm-devel
gpm-libs
gpm-static
hanamin-fonts
hanazono-fonts
jam
libbs2b
libbs2b-devel
libbsd
libbsd-ctor-static
libbsd-devel
lmms
lmms-devel
lmms-vst
lyx-fonts
man2html
man2html-core
man-pages
man-pages-de
man-pages-fr
man-pages-it
man-pages-ja
man-pages-ko
man-pages-nl
man-pages-pt_BR
man-pages-ro
perl-Crypt-Blowfish
perl-Font-AFM
perl-TermReadKey
perl-Text-Soundex
python3-passlib
python3-utmp
python-basemap-examples
R-IRanges
R-IRanges-devel
sl
symlinks
texlive-bbm
texlive-bbold-type1
texlive-breakcites
texlive-breakcites-doc
texlive-calligra
texlive-calligra-type1
texlive-charter
texlive-cherokee
texlive-cite
texlive-courseoutline
texlive-coursepaper
texlive-dancers
texlive-docbytex
texlive-dvidvi
texlive-ecv
texlive-eqname
texlive-figflow
texlive-framed
texlive-fwlw
texlive-hyphen-belarusian
texlive-hyphen-churchslavonic
texlive-hyphen-macedonian
texlive-hyphen-occitan
texlive-hyphen-turkish
texlive-kastrup
texlive-kixfont
texlive-magaz
texlive-mathlig
texlive-ocr-b
texlive-ocr-b-outline
texlive-oubraces
texlive-plweb
texlive-productbox
texlive-setspace
texlive-slideshow
texlive-swrule
texlive-ulem
texlive-version
trac-accountmanager-plugin
xhtml2fo-style-xsl
xmedcon
xmedcon-devel

$ dnf info --all --repo fedora | grep -B1 "Copyright only" | grep ^Licen 
| sort -u | cut -d: -f2

Artistic 2.0 and Copyright only
Artistic Licence 2.0 and BSD and BSD with advertising and Copyright only 
and GFDL and GPL+ and GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and (GPLv2+ or Artistic) and 
GPLv2 with exceptions and GPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv3+ and (GPLv3+ 
and BSD) and (GPLv3+ or BSD) and IEEE and IJG and ISC and LGPLv2+ and 
LGPLv3+ and (LGPLv3+ or BSD) and MIT and psutils and Public Domain and 
Sendmail and Verbatim
BSD and Beerware and Copyright only
BSD and Copyright only
BSD and GFDL and GPL+ and GPLv2+ and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE and 
ISC and GPLv2 and LGPLv2 and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and AML and Public 
Domain and LGPLv2+ and Artistic clarified and (GPLv2+ or Artistic) and 
GPLv3+ and Sendmail and BSD with advertising and GPLv2 with exceptions 
and xinetd
BSD and GPLv2+ and Public Domain and Copyright only
BSD and ISC and Copyright only and Public Domain
Copyright only
(Copyright only) and (Artistic or GPL+)
Copyright only and GPL+
(Copyright only) and (GPL+ or Artistic)
Copyright only or OFL
GPL+ and GPLv2+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
GPL+ and GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and GPLv3+ and BSD and MIT and 
Copyright only and IEEE
(GPL+ or Artistic) and Copyright only
GPLv2+ and Copyright only
GPLv2+ and GPL+ and Copyright only
GPLv2+ and GPLv2 and (GPLv2+ or MIT) and GPLv3+ and MIT and LGPLv2+ and 
(LGPLv2+ with exceptions) and Copyright only
GPLv2 and GPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv3+ and Verbatim and Copyright only
LGPLv2+ and Copyright only and MIT and BSD and libtiff



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