User:Panos Alevropoulos/test/License check
This page documents my suggestions for creating a well-structured "License check" guide to be used for all packages under review. Once a good guide is up and running, it should be directly maintained and monitored by the FSF Licensing & Compliance Lab.
Contents
Name
Suggested names:
- Freedom check (preferable, because
- License check
- License freedom check
Goals
This guide should:
- Create a clear, checkbox-style review process to determine FSD eligibility.
- Create step by step tutorials on how to use licensing tools.
- Record all known (good and bad) practices for license use and attribution, even edge cases.
- Instruct how to open issues in project pages to tackle any problem.
Separate projects
This guide is closely related but ultimately different to these goals:
- Encouraging correct use of licenses and established standards. This is a project that the FSF Licensing & Compliance Lab is working on.
- Identifying antifeatures. This is a task that is not related to FSD package eligibility.
Resources
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