Hello Fedora Legal,
a piece of software was recently discovered in Fedora Copr and it is now
causing a contention about whether it should be allowed to be there or not.
I am kindly asking for your ruling.

The project in question is here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/yuezk/globalprotect-openconnect/

And its upstream:
https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect

Both the upstream project and the package that is built in Copr claim to be
under the GPLv3 license.

The package provides several executables:

    /usr/bin/gpauth
    /usr/bin/gpclient
    /usr/bin/gpgui-helper
    /usr/bin/gpservice

All of these seem to be compiled from the mentioned upstream sources. So
far, no problem. However, when executing some of them (with the exception
of gpclient) the following tarball is being downloaded to the user machine:

    INFO  gpgui_helper::updater] Downloading file:
https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect/releases/download/v2.1.4/gpgui_x86_64.bin.tar.xz

It contains just a single binary called gpgui which is licensed under a
proprietary license and developed in a private repository, according to the
author:
https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect/issues/296#issuecomment-1905168220

When running the program, it says it is a 10-day trial and prompts for
buying a license here
https://yuezk.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout

I would like to ask you whether this is just a shady practice (but OK from
a legal perspective) or whether this is a violation of either GPLv3 or Copr
conditions
https://docs.pagure.org/copr.copr/user_documentation.html#what-i-can-build-in-copr

Thank you very much for your help,
Jakub
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