Licensing issues

[limburgher]

the point being that people should go and try to get tracks released under gpl (or something best suited for such kind of work) so they can be included in vdrift. as for my objections to the ideas expressed in the sentence quoted above, i don't even know where to begin... 1984.

The point is not to dominate all developers and enforce a particular license. I never said you had to adopt any particular license (although I think a CC license of some type might be better for the data, but I digress), I merely wanted to know if there were plans to release data that could be distributed by Fedora. I also pointed out that the legal status of the data currently released was in doubt. Essentially, releasing data that is not licensed in a GPL-compatible way as part of a GPL-licensed package is a no-no under the GPL. That's not me, that's not Fedora, that's the FSF. If you don't like the GPL, don't use it. Just don't violate it. IANAL, and I'm not trying to start a flamewar. I just want to make every effort I can to give quality Free software the widest audience possible, as well as expanding the software available in Fedora. I just happen to think that the responsibility for contacting authors for license clarification should rest with the developers, since it affect the whole vdrift project, not just it's inclusion in Fedora.

There are no totalitarian motives here. I just happen to like vdrift and Fedora, and I want to spread the joy, and not get sued. Chill out, we're on the same side.