It's less about whether Red Hat/Fedora runs into that restriction, and more
of whether someone downstream from us might. Historically, the rule for
content was "must be freely redistributable" and this fails that test,
because it places a specific restriction on one method of redistribution.

I defer to Red Hat and Fedora Legal though. ;)

~spot

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:28 PM Fabio Valentini <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:31 PM Ben Cotton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Let me check with some folks on that. I'd be interested in others'
> > opinions, too.
> >
> > If it were a code license, that's an obvious field of use restriction,
> > which means we wouldn't accept it. Historically, we've permitted
> > non-modification content licenses. Given the relatively narrow
> > restriction here, I'm inclined to except it, too. After all, we *use*
> > Unsplash photos around the project all the time: in Fedora Magazine,
> > on the Flock website, etc.
>
> Yeah, I know that pictures from unsplash.com are used in tons of
> places, but this is the first case I encountered where pictures that
> are licensed with their new custom license terms would end up an
> actual package - so I figured I should ask here first ... especially
> given the usage restrictions (though I don't think that it would apply
> to our use case, but obviously IANAL).
>
> Fabio
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