Dear legal team,
I recently had to remove some nontrivial work on Netperf package, done by several users of Fedora Copr build system - because any material uploaded to Copr must comply with Fedora licensing guidelines nowadays.
I'm curious whether we could have a list of licenses specifically approved for Fedora Copr, on top of fedora licensing guidelines, such as is sketched in [2].
Speaking about the concrete license [1], GitHub is allowed to distribute the sources without issues, and if user wants to package this against Fedora - there's currently no option.
Note though that I don't advocate the restrictive license in any way, it is bad license in my opinion. Though at the same time it is pity that copr can not be an answer to this problem (builds of non-commercial only software), and so I'd like to have it explicitly discussed.
[1] https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf/blob/master/COPYING [2] https://pagure.io/copr/copr/pull-request/855#request_diff
Pavel
* Pavel Raiskup:
Speaking about the concrete license [1], GitHub is allowed to distribute the sources without issues, and if user wants to package this against Fedora - there's currently no option.
[1] https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf/blob/master/COPYING
The copyright owner gave Github a license to distribute, by uploading it there, but that doesn't extend to COPR. I think COPR would have to rely on the non-commercial use option, and that looks messy. It also dilutes the rule that software on COPR is free to use, which netperf clearly is not.
Thanks, Florian
On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:45:17 AM CEST Florian Weimer wrote:
- Pavel Raiskup:
Speaking about the concrete license [1], GitHub is allowed to distribute the sources without issues, and if user wants to package this against Fedora - there's currently no option.
[1] https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf/blob/master/COPYING
The copyright owner gave Github a license to distribute, by uploading it there, but that doesn't extend to COPR. I think COPR would have to rely on the non-commercial use option, and that looks messy.
Just to be sure, do you mean some checkbox/software knob that would affect how the corresponding copr project looks like in UI?
It also dilutes the rule that software on COPR is free to use, which netperf clearly is not.
Agreed.
Pavel
Thanks, Florian
* Pavel Raiskup:
On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:45:17 AM CEST Florian Weimer wrote:
- Pavel Raiskup:
Speaking about the concrete license [1], GitHub is allowed to distribute the sources without issues, and if user wants to package this against Fedora - there's currently no option.
[1] https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf/blob/master/COPYING
The copyright owner gave Github a license to distribute, by uploading it there, but that doesn't extend to COPR. I think COPR would have to rely on the non-commercial use option, and that looks messy.
Just to be sure, do you mean some checkbox/software knob that would affect how the corresponding copr project looks like in UI?
Sorry, I mean the non-commercial license terms, as published in the COPYING file.
Github has been granted a separate license, as part of the service agreement with the uploader. That means they have another option, but COPR does not.
Thanks, Florian