Re: swap-ware

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On Thursday, 03 October 2019 at 14:46, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 12:05:05AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > here's another bundled component of AGS[1], libcda, which contains
> > code from BCD, which is licensed under what it calls "swap-ware"
> 
> Legal issues asside, I think this becomes untenable. What if a Fedora
> install image had, say, twelve such pieces of software. That's quite a list
> of autoexec.bats to email to various places.

I agree, but the legal issue is what allows me to or prevents me from
packaging this code in Fedora. Any ideas if this is free or non-free?

The package was reviewed[1], but I don't feel comfortable uploading the
tarball into the look-aside cache without an OK from legal.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757990

Regards,
Dominik
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