https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018698 --- Comment #13 from Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> --- If I understand correctly (please correct me if I am confused), you want to include in a Fedora package at least one of these files: https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/blob/master/share/fs-uae/aros-amiga-m68k-ext.bin https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/blob/master/share/fs-uae/aros-amiga-m68k-rom.bin (you didn't specify this previously but I assume these are what you mean by AROS ROMs) These are apparently generated by the AROS project. I think your view is that this should be allowed under an interpretation of Fedora's firmware exception. The problem is that unlike typical nonfree firwmare licenses allowed by Fedora, which are generally assumed to be self-compliant, the AROS license (which I'm assuming applies to those .bin files) is a copyleft open source license with a source availability requirement. The AROS license is essentially an old style of vanity MPL derivative and would likely be acceptable for Fedora. It isn't clear whether the fs-uae project itself is compliant with this license. In any event, Fedora would have to comply with the AROS license. This might be clearer (or it is for me anyway) if we imagine the AROS ROMs are GPLv2-covered Linux kernel binaries for some exotic architecture Fedora itself has no build systems for (there was in fact a historical case like this involving a linux-firmware file, IIRC). Surely Fedora could not ship such binaries without some solution to GPL source code compliance requirements. So I think you would need to (a) see if the source code of these ROMs is available, and confirm that source code is entirely under Fedora-allowed licenses, (b) get approval from FESCo to include the ROMs in a Fedora package given that these are third-party-built binary files, (c) come up with a plan for how Fedora will meet the source code requirements of the AROS license and get approval for that. BTW this license would not be allowed in Fedora: https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/blob/master/licenses/ipflib.txt I don't know what that covers in the fs-uae repository. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018698 Report this comment as SPAM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&format=report-spam&short_desc=Report%20of%20Bug%202018698%23c13 _______________________________________________ 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
