Re: Specifically approved license for Copr: Netperf

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* 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
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