Hello! Remi Collet noted in a package review[0] I submitted that there is some unclear wording about the licensing of the package. The readme[1] says: > It was previously stated that this package is on MIT license, which > did not meet the requirements set by the original author. It is now > under the GNU GPL v3 license, so if you wish to use it in a > commercial project, you need to pay an appropriate fee. The pchart.net license page[2] says even more, but also has a slight contradiction I think: > The pChart library is released under two different licenses. If your > application is not a commercial one (eg: you make no money by > redistributing it) then the GNU GPLv3 license (General Public > License) applies. This license allows you to freely integrate this > library in your applications, modify the code and redistribute it in > bundled packages as long as your application is also distributed with > the GPL license. > > If your application can't meet the GPL license or is a commercial one > (eg: the library is integrated in a software or an appliance you're > selling) then you'll have to buy a commercial license. With this > license you don't need to make publicly available your application > code under the GPL license terms. The slight contradiction I referenced is the "if you can't meet the GPL" bit. The first paragraph specifically cites making money by redistributing, but the second paragraph sounds like they think it's OK if you follow the GPL terms. It's confusing. I think Remi is right to say that we need to get clarification before we can add this package to Fedora. One thing that makes this a bit more complicated is that the szymach version of pchart sounds like it might be a fork of pchart, but doesn't make that clear either. Is this a blocker for package review? Would we need both upstreams to grant a clearer license before we can proceed? [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1425275 [1] https://github.com/szymach/c-pchart#license [2] http://www.pchart.net/license
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