Re: joke license (McRae General Public License)

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On Monday, 13 July 2020 at 14:35, Ben Cotton wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 6:09 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It seems one of the filter lists (Peter Lowe's adservers list) in uBlock
> > Origin is licensed under this[1] and the author considers it a "joke
> > license"[2]. Nonetheless, it explicitly forbids commercial use, telling
> > the licensee to "stick it..." if they don't agree.
> >
> I am not a lawyer (nor am I spot), but the prohibition against
> commercial use seems to be a pretty clear case of "not acceptable for
> Fedora".

Any other opinions? Any advice how to convince upstream that this is a
real issue?

Regards,
Dominik
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