On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 00:10, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 7:04 PM Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> 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/legal@lists.fedoraproject.o...
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
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