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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2024-07-18 21:30:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2024-07-24 20:28:36 +0200 |
| commit | 3aa84726b1ee993a4c8182d77f1f82e9b2236fda (patch) | |
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Social contract: Licenses must be free but not necessarily OSI-approved
Rationale:
- The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License is not approved
by the OSI.
- The OSI has approved some dubious licenses (e.g. Watcom-1.0) which
we do not want.
- For a usable Gentoo operating system (e.g. installation media or
stages) more licenses than those approved by FSF or OSI are needed.
In practice we maintain our own list of licenses in the FREE license
group.
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/936517
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'get-started')
| -rw-r--r-- | get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md b/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md index 6972245..543a5d3 100644 --- a/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md +++ b/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.md @@ -31,12 +31,10 @@ We will release our contributions to Gentoo as free software, metadata or docume under the GNU General Public License version 2 (or later, at our discretion) or the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike version 2 (or later, at our discretion). 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)). +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 that fulfills the [Free Software Definition](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#fs-definition) or the [Definition of Free Cultural Works](https://freedomdefined.org/). <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: The Gentoo Licenses Project maintains a list of conforming licenses in the <tt>@FREE</tt> license group, in line with the <a href="https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0023.html">GLEP 23</a> specification. </div> ## We will give back to the free software community |