On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:49:28PM -0500, Michel Lind via legal wrote: > 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 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar "the license requires that you agree to these use restrictions, or you must remove the software (source and binary) from your hard disks. Accordingly, this means that any code under this license can not be shipped as part of Fedora in source or binary form." This indicates you'll need to strip it from the original upstream tarballs & repack them. Best practice would be to include a shell script in dist-git which takes the upstream tarball, purges the files, and creates the new tarball, so that the re-packing process is verifiable. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-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/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
