Re: Specifically approved license for Copr: Netperf

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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
> 



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