Ray Van Dolson wrote: > Hi all; > > This is in regards to an attempt to package figlet[1] for Fedora. It > turns out that part of this package[2] is under a non-free license. > Attempts to contact the author of this code have been thus far > unsuccessful, and I'm wondering as to the best way to proceed. > > The license currently in place on these files indicate that any changes > to the code needs to be emailed to the original author within 30 days. > Would this cover licensing changes as well? I'm wondering if we could > just change the license on this code, notify the author via the email > address provided and call it good (the author's email address isn't > bouncing, but appears to be inactive). IANAL and all that but you cannot do this. > > Another alternative would be to have upstream replace the code with > sufficiently free code, or to remove the functionality completely. This would work and should be your first option > I am also considering patching out the non-free code myself (since > upstream doesn't really have an active maintainer right now as figlet > has been pretty stable for years) and doing the release that way. The > functionality in question is for decompressing font files which we > could easily live without. This would work and seems to be the simplest option. Just comment the spec file. Rahul _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
