Re: Non-free tarball checked in

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Martin Erik Werner
<martinerikwerner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 12:21 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mattia Verga <mattia.verga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Il 12/03/2012 13:33, Dennis Gilmore ha scritto:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:19:38 -0400
>> >> Stephen Gallagher<sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 13:01 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 03/12/2012 03:46 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I checked in a tarball for egoboo that turned out to have a
>> >>>>> non-free (noncommercial restriction) font file in it. The tarball
>> >>>>> has only been used for local builds (no scratch-builds). Do I
>> >>>>> need to remove this tarball from the lookaside cache? If so how
>> >>>>> do I do it? The hash is e6f3130695d297dcd9fe74e50bd59b68.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Does that mean any source tarballs containing non-free content
>> >>>> should be repacked by the maintainer even if the source rpm doesn't
>> >>>> install/use any of the non-free content? I've been recently
>> >>>> commenting on a review where this might apply.
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, see
>> >>>
>> >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Prohibited_Code
>> >>
>> >> Also you should neverdo a scratch build with prohibited code/items.
>> >
>> > And what about for pre-built binary files contained in source that are not
>> > installed in the final rpm (ex. deleted in the %setup stage)? Should the
>> > source be purged from those?
>>
>> If the licensing is such that they can't be redistributed, yes.
>>
>> -J
>
> So for something that is, say CC-BY-NonCommercial, it would be okay to
> ship in the SRPM but not in the RPM?

Neither, actually.  See Bad Licences.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#SoftwareLicenses

-J

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