On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 08:26 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé via legal wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:49:28PM -0500, Michel Lind via legal
> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar
> 
>   "the license requires that you agree to these use restrictions,
>    or you must remove the software (source and binary) from your
>    hard disks. Accordingly, this means that any code under this
>    license can not be shipped as part of Fedora in source or
>    binary form."
> 
> This indicates you'll need to strip it from the original upstream
> tarballs & repack them.  Best practice would be to include a shell
> script in dist-git which takes the upstream tarball, purges the
> files, and creates the new tarball, so that the re-packing process
> is verifiable.


It's pity, 7zip now supports build without rar 


Best regards, 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.
-- 
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