On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 12:39 -0500, Michel Lind via legal wrote: > Dear legal list, > > I just filed > https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/640 > requesting review request for 7zip's license. > > TL;DR - this is blocking the review of 7zip, which we want to have as > a > replacement for p7zip which is dead upstream (and is needed by e.g. > the > Fedora Asahi Remix) > > The specific worry is > - the language dedicating this to the public domain is very spartan > (all of them are one-liners, see the issue) > - some of these are done by other people and not the main project > author, with no reference to where the sources are obtained from > > Related question: as I understand it public domain dedications have > to > be vetted before use, but where is this requirement documented? e.g. > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/#_overview > does not specifically mention a special process for LicenseRef- > Fedora- > Public-Domain. > One thing to note - it also has unrar files, which we need a decision on - is it fine if they are in the source tarballs but deleted in prep and support not compiled in - or do we need to ship a stripped tarball Best regards, -- _o) Michel Lind _( ) identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2 README: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Salimma#README
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