On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 12:33 AM Jerry James via legal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been using scancode to take an in-depth look at packages I > > maintain. I'm up to packages that start with "a"! While looking at > > the antlr3 package, I found that it contains 3 files with the > > LicenseRef-Unicode-legacy-source-code license, which is not allowed > > for Fedora [1]. The files are part of the C/C++ backend. They have > > been built into binary RPMs for Fedora since 2010 [2] (Fedora 12?). > > > > Repoquery shows that nothing in Fedora uses the C/C++ backend. I will > > build updates for F42, F43, and Rawhide that disable it. My question > > is whether I need to do anything more than that. Do I need to scrub > > the offending files out of the tarball, for example? > > > > References: > > [1] > > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/main/data/LicenseRef-Unicode-legacy-source-code.toml > > [2] > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/antlr3/c/6398229d293262736484dc0e3d7a87bf4f8f990a > > Is there anybody who can advise me on this? I assume this license is > not allowed in Fedora due to the Limitations clause at the end. Do I > need to scrub the sources, or is simply not building the code into the > binary RPMs sufficient?
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