[Bug 1919639] Review Request: DOSBox-X - DOS/x86 emulator

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919639



--- Comment #37 from Otto Urpelainen <oturpe@xxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Gregory PAKOSZ from comment #35)
> Though it shouldn't be necessary: IANAL but WTFPL v2 is supposed to be
> compatible with GPL v2 and v3. It's at least listed as such by Fedora:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses

Hi Gregory,

That is right, whereami's license is ok for Fedora, either of the given options
would work actually. The problem I have with the licenses is not that dosbox-x
could not be included in Fedora. It is just that the licenses should be listed
correctly in specfile Licenses field, and the conditions for each license
fulfilled.

A very common case is that popular permissive licenses like MIT, BSD, APL2 all
require distributing the original copyright and permissions notices with the
source or compiled program. When a project bundles it dependencies like
dosbox-x does, this results in requirement to include a lot of those notices.
As an example, consider the Visual Studio Code notices file (from some old
version, the current one is much longer):
https://gist.github.com/dm/e5581d6c37b408c819ec

Another example would be this Oracle HTTP Server docs page, fulfilling the
license conditions of open source software they have used:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b12255/license.htm


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