On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 3:15 PM Maxwell G <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am reviewing yq, which is an MIT-licensed, statically linked (all go > binaries are statically linked) go project that builds against > golang-github-timtadh-data-structures-devel. The latter is licensed under > GPL-2.0-only. My understanding is that distributing yq binaries with just the > MIT license file as is constitutes a GPL violation. > > While we're waiting for upstram to rectify this situation (I filed an issue), > would it be permissible to set the License field to `MIT AND GPL-2.0-only`, > include a copy of the GPL v2 in the package, and add a comment to the > specfile explaining the situation?
This is an interesting question since Jilayne Lovejoy and I have recently been working on revised legal documentation for Fedora that among other things deals with the topic of what to put in the License: field given the anticipated migration to the use of SPDX identifiers. But we haven't considered a case like this one. If I understand correctly (I have passing familiarity with Go and close to zero understanding of how Go projects are built and packaged for Fedora) the yq rpm would contain a binary that is statically linked against golang-github-timtadh-data-structures, but the source package of the yq rpm will not itself contain the source code of golang-github-timtadh-data-structures (i.e. it won't be "vendored" [bleh]), which however will be separately packaged in Fedora. Is that accurate or am I misunderstanding? Surely this sort of question has come up before for Fedora Go packages... or has it? Richard _______________________________________________ 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] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
