Bug 1334295

Summary:	kopote and licensing problem.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	mejiko <private>
Component:	kopete	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	jreznik, rdieter, rnovacek, tcallawa, than
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Description mejiko 2016-05-09 10:56:25 UTC

Hello.

kopote included non-free code.


Infomation:

File: kopete-15.12.3/protocols/irc/ksparser.h

License: Artistic License

Why non-free ?: Artistic License is BAD License. (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Bad_Licenses)

Note: Artistic License Version 2.0 is GOOD License. (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Good_Licenses)


This problem already reported. (Upstream and Gnewsense).

I suggest that resolve license problem.
Thanks.


Reference:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?46741
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356326

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2016-05-09 12:08:31 UTC

I guess question for FE-Legal, even though this code is apparently unused, does merely including it in the source tarball rise to the level of making it not freely redistributable?

If not, I'm of a mind to close this issue here, and let upstream handle it.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2016-05-12 12:35:30 UTC

As threatened, closing here with the opinion that we are not directly affected, and continuing to poke upstream to fix it for posterity.

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2016-05-16 20:49:05 UTC

Upstream relicensed this file to a Free license on 2016-05-16:

https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kopete.git&a=commit&h=5db7f93d05d61a043d62884820faefb57de7e28b