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,

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