Non-free tarball checked in

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Mar 12 12:19:38 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 13:01 +0100, Brendan Jones wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 03:46 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > I checked in a tarball for egoboo that turned out to have a non-free
> > (noncommercial restriction) font file in it. The tarball has only
> > been used for local builds (no scratch-builds). Do I need to remove
> > this tarball from the lookaside cache? If so how do I do it?
> > The hash is e6f3130695d297dcd9fe74e50bd59b68.
> 
> Does that mean any source tarballs containing non-free content should be 
> repacked by the maintainer even if the source rpm doesn't install/use 
> any of the non-free content? I've been recently commenting on a review 
> where this might apply.

Yes, see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Prohibited_Code
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