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All software and content distributed by Sugar Labs, including activity bundles uploaded to http://activities.sugarlabs.org, must be released under a license that conforms to the principles and guidelines referred to above. | All software and content distributed by Sugar Labs, including activity bundles uploaded to http://activities.sugarlabs.org, must be released under a license that conforms to the principles and guidelines referred to above. | ||
| − | You may use any license on the Fedora Project's [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses | + | You may use any license on the Fedora Project's [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses list of acceptable licenses] or the FSF's [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html list of licenses]. If you wish to use a license not on one of these two lists and believe that it fits our guidelines, please contact the [[Oversight Board]]. |
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:Sorry. I realize I had the wrong link. Should be http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html which includes many non-GNU licenses. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 09:21, 24 June 2011 (EDT) | :Sorry. I realize I had the wrong link. Should be http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html which includes many non-GNU licenses. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 09:21, 24 June 2011 (EDT) | ||
| + | :The problem with the Fedora link was a typo. Should link directly to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses now. --[[User:Walter|Walter]] 09:23, 24 June 2011 (EDT) | ||
Revision as of 08:23, 24 June 2011
DRAFT of new Licensing text as per the discussion at the 9 June 2011 SLOBs meeting
Sugar Labs adheres to the principles of Free Software. An overview of these principles is found on the GNU.org website. The OSD has a set of guidelines for Free and Open Source software that characterize the intentions of our community.
All software and content distributed by Sugar Labs, including activity bundles uploaded to http://activities.sugarlabs.org, must be released under a license that conforms to the principles and guidelines referred to above.
You may use any license on the Fedora Project's list of acceptable licenses or the FSF's list of licenses. If you wish to use a license not on one of these two lists and believe that it fits our guidelines, please contact the Oversight Board.
This policy was determined during a 2009-12-11 board meeting and clarified at the 2011-06-09 board meeting.
Please contact the Oversight Board if you have questions about our licensing policy.
+1 to the above text from me! bernie 03:29, 15 June 2011 (EDT)
+1 from Cjb, with the fix to one of the links that I just made. Cjb 09:45, 15 June 2011 (EDT)
The language seems sloppy to me. Fedora lists both good and bad licenses on the linked page, so saying "You may use any license" from there is not quite what is meant. Secondly, the FSF link goes only to the GNU licenses, perhaps their list of Free Software Licenses is more appropriate? Bert 09:15, 24 June 2011 (EDT)
- Sorry. I realize I had the wrong link. Should be http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html which includes many non-GNU licenses. --Walter 09:21, 24 June 2011 (EDT)
- The problem with the Fedora link was a typo. Should link directly to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses now. --Walter 09:23, 24 June 2011 (EDT)