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. -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to legal-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue