Fedora Legal Resources

In order to meet the goal of creating a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free and open source software, all software and other content packaged in Fedora Linux, or otherwise used in or created for Fedora, must be under licenses determined to be allowed in Fedora, with only limited, conditional exceptions.

See the links here for understanding what kinds of licenses are allowed in Fedora, lists of allowed and not-allowed licenses, populating the License: field in a package spec file, and the process for reviewing new licenses.

Fedora has a legal mailing list (legal@lists.fedoraproject.org). Only list subscribers can post directly to the list. You can subscribe to the list and view the archives at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/legal.lists.fedoraproject.org/.

There is a Bugzilla tracker bug named FE-Legal. If a package review ticket is blocked by the FE-Legal tracker bug, this means that the person who set the block believes that the package raises an issue under Fedora’s licensing guidelines or other aspects of the Fedora Project’s legal policies.

Package reviews blocked by the FE-Legal tracker bug cannot be approved until the block is officially lifted.

Cornell University and the University of Virginia offer an open source digital object repository software under the mark FEDORA Project. Red Hat’s Fedora Project is not affiliated, connected or associated with the FEDORA Project of Cornell University and the University of Virginia. Cornell University and the University of Virginia do not sponsor, approve of, or endorse Red Hat’s Fedora Project.