The package libieee1284
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258654
has a licensing issue for more than a year. I contacted Tim (current package mainatiner) and he has no plan to fix this issue.
As a consequence I am going to retire this package by the end of this week.
This will impact:
libsigrok libsigrok-cxx sane-backends sane-backends-drivers-scanners
Hi Mirek,
I have contacted Tim for co-maintainship in Fedora for me and Centos Stream maintainer - there is MR from Zbyzsek which seems to work, it might do the trick.
Zdenek
On 5/18/26 11:35, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
The package libieee1284
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258654
has a licensing issue for more than a year. I contacted Tim (current package mainatiner) and he has no plan to fix this issue.
As a consequence I am going to retire this package by the end of this week.
This will impact:
libsigrok libsigrok-cxx sane-backends sane-backends-drivers-scanners
-- Miroslav Suchy, RHCA Red Hat, Manager, Packit and CPT, #brno, #fedora-buildsys
MR merged, and the package rebuilt https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-29cee6baa2 .
Zdenek
On 5/18/26 13:38, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
Hi Mirek,
I have contacted Tim for co-maintainship in Fedora for me and Centos Stream maintainer - there is MR from Zbyzsek which seems to work, it might do the trick.
Zdenek
On 5/18/26 11:35, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
The package libieee1284
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258654
has a licensing issue for more than a year. I contacted Tim (current package mainatiner) and he has no plan to fix this issue.
As a consequence I am going to retire this package by the end of this week.
This will impact:
libsigrok libsigrok-cxx sane-backends sane-backends-drivers-scanners
-- Miroslav Suchy, RHCA Red Hat, Manager, Packit and CPT, #brno, #fedora-buildsys
-- Zdenek Dohnal Senior Software Engineer Red Hat, BRQ-TPBC
On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 11:35:02AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
The package libieee1284
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258654
has a licensing issue for more than a year. I contacted Tim (current package mainatiner) and he has no plan to fix this issue.
As a consequence I am going to retire this package by the end of this week.
This feels like an unnecessary action for this specific situation IMHO.
90% of the file is wrapped in a #ifdef __KERNEL__, so is not included in the Fedora build of this package and thus irrelevant for license compatibility.
The bits that are relevant are the constants and there's a case to be made that this portion of the header can be considered non- copyrightable content, regardless of the license header statement.
So while I agree with the view that GFDL-1.1-or-later not be used for code in Fedora, I don't think that's a problem in this specific case and doesn't warrant package removal.
Regardless as a package in Fedora for 20+ years, it should be allowed to be a grandfathered in under previous Fedora license rules IMHO.
With regards, Daniel
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Zdenek Dohnal