Guidelines for dealing with licensing issues in distributed packages

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What's the best way to raise licensing issues in already-added packages?
I think there are largely two cases:

* Fedora and its distributors comply with the licensing terms, but the
  license is not obviously on Fedora's allowed list.  An example would
  be an obscure field-of-use restriction (as in the JSON license).

* Fedora and its distributors appear violating the license.  An example
  would be a package that ships a pre-built Linux kernel binary without
  the required GPL notices, and without corresponding soruce code.

Do these two cases need to be treated differently?  In the past, I may
have filed bugs in Bugzilla, but this might be construed as a bit rude.

I looked at <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/> and couldn't
find any discussion of this topic.  Sorry if I missed it.

Thanks,
Florian
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