Hi!
I own htdig package, which got recently discovered license issue with
bundled libdb version ~3.x [1]. I think the only reason it is still in
Fedora is that just compiled for years back. I doubt anyone is using it
at the moment and I have never used it myself. I just inherited it when
joined Red Hat and just once fixed FTBFS bug, otherwise there weren't
been any feedback to it for years.
It uses undeclared libdb copy with Sleepycat license, which were
declared incompatible for Fedora [2]. I don't want to invest time to
make it compile with alternative database, because I don't think time
spent on it is worth it. If anyone would like to maintain and solve
those issues, send me a mail. I am happy to give it to anyone else.
Upstream is long dead though.
Is it enough if I orphan that package? Is there any guidance where
existing package is found to have licensing problem, how should it be
solved? Should something be done to the stable branches also? Should it
be retired from all stable branches as well? How should I proceed in
this case?
Best Regards,
Petr
1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168501
2. https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/152
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Petr Menšík
Software Engineer, RHEL
Red Hat, https://www.redhat.com/
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