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,