[Fedora-legal-list] Re: joke license (McRae General Public License)
On Monday, 13 July 2020 at 14:35, Ben Cotton wrote:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 6:09 PM Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
>
> It seems one of the filter lists (Peter Lowe's adservers list) in uBlock
> Origin is licensed under this[1] and the author considers it a "joke
> license"[2]. Nonetheless, it explicitly forbids commercial use, telling
> the licensee to "stick it..." if they don't agree.
>
I am not a lawyer (nor am I spot), but the prohibition against
commercial use seems to be a pretty clear case of "not acceptable for
Fedora".
Any other opinions? Any advice how to convince upstream that this is a
real issue?
Regards,
Dominik
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