Re: mininet license

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On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 17:08, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:55 AM Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Kind reminder that the package was accepted [1], and we are blocking on legal.
> >
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2072115
>
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately we have decided this license does not meet Fedora's
> minimum standards for a free software/open source license.
>
> The license may continue to be tolerated for software that is
> currently packaged in Fedora, but would not be allowed for future
> packages.

So it's ok for OpenvSwitch I guess because it's a key technology
nowadays, but not for this. [shrugs]

Thanks anyway for your consideration.
Iñaki

> My recommendation would be to try to get the upstream developers to
> switch to an OSI-approved permissive license like the MIT license.
>
> Richard
>


-- 
Iñaki Úcar
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