Re: msv (xsdlib) licensing review

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On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 7:35 AM Marián Konček <mkoncek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, I would like to package only that part.
>
> Does license review need to be done before or after submitting a package
> review in Bugzilla?

I don't think we (Fedora Legal people) care about that in general
(unless there's some specific reason to think that a package wouldn't
be allowed in Fedora for some non-license-related reason).

> Regarding opening issues on fedora / spdx:
> * one part is about adding / not adding Oracle / Sun's variant of
> BSD-3-Clause
> * the other is about accepting differently formatted Apache-1.1?
>
> Does formatting matter to SPDX?

I have lost track of this but I think the issue was not formatting but
some of the language of the Apache Software License 1.1 variant did
not match the SPDX identifier. In general, formatting is irrelevant.

Richard



>
> On 8. 8. 2023 20:24, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 9:00 AM Marián Konček <mkoncek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> As part of the jaxb 4.0.2 -> 4.0.3 update, part of this package is
> >> needed for its code generation. Therefore, I would like to package it in
> >> Fedora. This package has complex licensing which is why I am asking for
> >> a review. Note that I only need the "xsdlib" subdirectory.
> >>
> >> I only need a stripped-down version of this package as if by
> >> downloading:
> >> https://github.com/xmlark/msv/archive/refs/tags/msv-2022.7.tar.gz
> >>
> >> and running (inside the msv-msv-2022.7 directory):
> >>
> >> find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name 'xsdlib' -exec rm -rf {} +
> >> rm -rf xsdlib/src/main/resources
> >> rm -rf xsdlib/src/test
> >> grep -l -r --ignore-case 'proprietary' | xargs rm -v
> >>
> >> Most problematic license files are: copyright.txt and license.txt in
> >> https://github.com/xmlark/msv/tree/main/docs/xsdlib. To my knowledge,
> >> all files that remained use explicit BSD-3-Clause or Apache-1.1.
> >> Question is whether we could have removed the copyright.txt and
> >> license.txt files in the first place.
> >>
> >> Current upstream: https://github.com/xmlark/msv
> >> Previous package in Fedora (used different source repository):
> >> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2576
> >> Previous bug related to licensing:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=87684
> >>
> >> Also grep --ignore-case for "proprietary" "confidential", "nuclear".
> > Can you create  a package just from that subset of the xsdlib
> > directory as you indicated above?
> >
> > In those files, what I saw on a quick review was:
> >
> > - pom.xml : there's a Sun BSD license that is probably OK for Fedora
> > but does not seem to match any known variant. (It's tempting to just
> > ignore this but since it's probably OK we might as well add it.)
> >
> > - Oracle 3-clause BSD licenses: most of these seem to be BSD-3-Clause,
> > but there was one for which SPDX would need to revise the markup, I
> > think ( xsdlib/src/main/java/com/sun/msv/datatype/regexp/InternalImpl.java)
> >
> > - The Apache 1.1 license appearing on a number of source files does
> > not quite match SPDX Apache-1.1, would require SPDX revision to the
> > Apache-1.1 markup
> >
> > So these seem fairly nonproblematic but it would be helpful if you
> > could create issues for these in fedora-license-data and then at
> > github.com/spdx/license-list-XML.
> >
> > But if you need to package any of the other stuff in this repository
> > that may complicate things further.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> --
> Marián Konček
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