news 28 Posted December 14, 2011 In consultation with Red Hat Legal and the Fedora Board, I have implemented a chance to Fedora's policy regarding software marked as being in the Public Domain. The new policy is as follows: ***** Works which are clearly marked as being in the Public Domain, and for which no evidence is known to contradict this statement, are treated in Fedora as being in the Public Domain, on the grounds that the intentions of the original creator are reflected by such a use, even if due to regional issues, it may not have been possible for the original creator to fully abandon all of their their copyrights on the work and place it fully into the Public Domain. If you believe that a work in Fedora which is marked as being in the Public Domain is actually available under a copyright license, please inform us of this fact with details, and we will immediately investigate the claim. ***** The wiki home for this new policy is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#Public_Domain This policy is effective immediately. If you have had a package rejected by Fedora because it was in the Public Domain and we were unable to determine the validity of the Public Domain declaration, the declaration was deemed to be incomplete, or there were jurisdictional issues with the declaration, please feel free to open new package reviews or contact legal ( -at -) fedoraproject.org to lift any FE-Legal blocks. If you have questions about this change in policy, feel free to email me Share this post Link to post
