Yes, because of the way this license is drafted, you need to make a clean tarball which has the files under that license removed, and use that in the package.
Tom
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 6:13 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday, 10 October 2019 at 00:10, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 7:04 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Hi, is the license you're talking about this one?
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/BPZ6QVXPY2A4PYBH5GSM5J6DQZO7BTOC/
Yes.
> Clearly not a free software license IMO.
I suspected as much. Removing the files from upstream tarball before
uploading to Fedora look-aside cache is the only option for now, correct?
Regards,
Dominik
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