Should Fedora distribute content under the Ocaml documentation license?
The license says:
“ The present documentation is copyright © 2013 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The OCaml documentation and user’s manual may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:
• The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be preserved complete on all complete or partial copies. • Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml documentation and user’s manual must be approved by the authors in writing before distribution. • If you distribute the OCaml documentation and user’s manual in part, instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided. • Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation is given. ”
For program source code, this would clearly not be allowed because derivative works are not permitted. Are such restrictions permitted for documentation licenses in Fedora?
Thanks, Florian
On 12/31/2017 04:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Should Fedora distribute content under the Ocaml documentation license?
The license says:
“ The present documentation is copyright © 2013 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The OCaml documentation and user’s manual may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:
• The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be preserved complete on all complete or partial copies. • Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml documentation and user’s manual must be approved by the authors in writing before distribution. • If you distribute the OCaml documentation and user’s manual in part, instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided. • Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation is given. ”
For program source code, this would clearly not be allowed because derivative works are not permitted. Are such restrictions permitted for documentation licenses in Fedora?
No. The restrictions upon modification make this non-free, and we have never permitted non-free documentation in Fedora.
~tom
On 01/03/2018 03:53 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 12/31/2017 04:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Should Fedora distribute content under the Ocaml documentation license?
The license says:
“ The present documentation is copyright © 2013 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The OCaml documentation and user’s manual may be reproduced and distributed in whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:
• The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be preserved complete on all complete or partial copies. • Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml documentation and user’s manual must be approved by the authors in writing before distribution. • If you distribute the OCaml documentation and user’s manual in part, instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided. • Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation is given. ”
For program source code, this would clearly not be allowed because derivative works are not permitted. Are such restrictions permitted for documentation licenses in Fedora?
No. The restrictions upon modification make this non-free, and we have never permitted non-free documentation in Fedora.
Thanks, I filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530647
Florian