On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 6:18 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
What's the best way to raise licensing issues in already-added packages?
I think there are largely two cases:
* Fedora and its distributors comply with the licensing terms, but the
license is not obviously on Fedora's allowed list. An example would
be an obscure field-of-use restriction (as in the JSON license).
This requires a BZ set to block FE-Legal *and* an issue filed at
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/.
When doing so, please link the BZ and the GitLab issue together.
* Fedora and its distributors appear violating the license. An
example
would be a package that ships a pre-built Linux kernel binary without
the required GPL notices, and without corresponding soruce code.
The correct way to handle this is file a bug on RHBZ and block FE-Legal.
Do these two cases need to be treated differently? In the past, I
may
have filed bugs in Bugzilla, but this might be construed as a bit rude.
The two cases are handled differently, as I outlined above.
I looked at <
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/> and
couldn't
find any discussion of this topic. Sorry if I missed it.
No worries!
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