Bug 1024708

Summary:	cowsay included non-free art
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	mejiko <private>
Component:	cowsay	Assignee:	Rahul Sundaram <metherid>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	metherid, rhbugs, tcallawa
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Description mejiko 2013-10-30 09:47:16 UTC

Hello.

cowsay included non-free images.
This is BSD daemon ASCII art.

BSD daemon copyright license is very very restrictive, Its non-free.


URI:

http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html
http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html


1. remove non-free images and rebuild.

2. replace fedora free (Fedora acceptable licensed) images.

3. contact BSD daemon author.

4. remove fedora repos.


Thanks.


Reference:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020893

Comment 1 mejiko 2013-10-30 09:47:59 UTC

Blocking FE-Legal, This is license problem.

Comment 2 Hans Ulrich Niedermann 2013-11-16 11:59:31 UTC

Is this ASCII art even covered under those BSD copyrights?

It does not look anything like those images of the red devil-type bitmap images listed on the the freebsd.org and mckusick.com websites.

Removing /usr/share/cowsay/daemon.cow from the RPM would be trivial, of course.

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2014-01-22 19:40:01 UTC

There is reasonable evidence that daemon.cow was contributed to cowsay by the copyright holder (Marshall Kirk McKusick). As such, I consider this to be free (unless proven otherwise).