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#3541 Change: CommonLicenses
Closed: Invalid by salimma. Opened by alking.

Closed: Invalid
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License texts for a subset of commonly used, approved licenses will be shipped in common-licenses. Packages can opt to reference this rather than shipping their own license texts.

Owners, do not implement this work until the FESCo vote has explicitly ended.
The Fedora Program Manager will create a tracking bug in Bugzilla for this Change, which is your indication to proceed. See the FESCo ticket policy and the Changes policy for more information.

REMINDER: This ticket is for FESCo members to vote on the proposal. Further discussion should happen in the Discourse discussion linked above. Additional discussion may happen on the Fedora Devel mailing list.

Metadata Update from @ngompa:
- Issue assigned to salimma

-1 I don't think this is worth all the effort/churn.

Metadata Update from @decathorpe:
- Issue tagged with: meeting

This issue will be discussed at the next meeting on 2026-01-20

-1

This will require ongoing work to ensure that the common licenses do actually all match, which I find unnecessary. This is unnecessary risk for Fedora and I would rather the licensing information remain explicit per package.

It also means everything will require the common-licenses package if a package's license is from that package, but then that will mean those users will have ALL of those common licenses on the system even if they have no packages installed that use them. That can then be misleading for some users if they see a particular license on the system but have no software that uses it.

The risk/reward tradeoff here isn't worth it to me. We introduce too much risk here for not really any gain.

Change Owners are withdrawing this proposal, and we will just create the package first and figure out the policy for F45.

Announced in https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IXPVJMEORBD34ZVW3C43WTUK6NR3SC6H/

Metadata Update from @salimma:
- Issue close_status updated to: Invalid
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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