https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018698 --- Comment #10 from Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> --- OK, I am fairly certain that the AROS Public License 1.1 would be an 'allowed' license for Fedora if submitted for review (the minor differences relative to MPL 1.1 are clearly not ones that would affect a judgment whether the license is FOSS). The process for review of a new license is now described here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-review-process/ The existing guidance on emulators, and also the substance of the firmware license allowance policy, are actually a somewhat confusing (to me) mix of legal and technical policy criteria. So this leads me to say the following: * It is possible that there is a Fedora *technical* (non-legal) policy that would be violated by including the AROS ROMs even if the license of the ROMs was otherwise acceptable (as it seems to be). I can't provide further help with that beyond sensing it could be an issue. If the answer is not obvious, maybe FESCO or the Fedora Packaging Committee can provide a quick answer. * Assuming there is no Fedora technical policy that would be violated by including the AROS ROMs, there is one remaining legal issue. The AROS Public License has some obligations regarding source code publication and other requirements that the FS-UAE upstream source repository and releases *might* not be compliant with. I think Fedora would probably take a fairly conservative approach to this issue and assume (regardless of what MPL-based licenses actually seem to say) that a GPL-like source obligation applies to distribution of the ROMs by Fedora. So packaging FS-UAE, if otherwise acceptable, would need to remedy those upstream problems (or you'd have to persuade the upstream to fix them and then re-package this with those fixes applied). I think that would probably require bundling the relevant AROS source code with the source RPM. Apparently related Debian issue from several years ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804234 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are always notified about changes to this product and component You are on the CC list for the bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018698 _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to package-review-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
