Yes, because of the way this license is drafted, you need to make a clean tarball which has the files under that license removed, and use that in the package.
Tom On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 6:13 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 00:10, Richard Fontana wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 7:04 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, 03 October 2019 at 14:46, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 12:05:05AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' > Mierzejewski wrote: > > > > > here's another bundled component of AGS[1], libcda, which contains > > > > > code from BCD, which is licensed under what it calls "swap-ware" > > > > > > > > Legal issues asside, I think this becomes untenable. What if a Fedora > > > > install image had, say, twelve such pieces of software. That's quite > a list > > > > of autoexec.bats to email to various places. > > > > > > I agree, but the legal issue is what allows me to or prevents me from > > > packaging this code in Fedora. Any ideas if this is free or non-free? > > > > > > The package was reviewed[1], but I don't feel comfortable uploading the > > > tarball into the look-aside cache without an OK from legal. > > > > Hi, is the license you're talking about this one? > > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/BPZ6QVXPY2A4PYBH5GSM5J6DQZO7BTOC/ > > Yes. > > > Clearly not a free software license IMO. > > I suspected as much. Removing the files from upstream tarball before > uploading to Fedora look-aside cache is the only option for now, correct? > > Regards, > Dominik > -- > Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org > There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and > oppression to develop psychic muscles. > -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan > _______________________________________________ > legal mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] >
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