Bug 2116859
| Summary: | man-pages: Contains contents under a not-allowed license | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Florian Weimer <fweimer> |
| Component: | man-pages | Assignee: | Nikola Forró <nforro> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 35 | CC: | ben, eblake, fedora, fedoraproject, jchaloup, jwakely, kasal, mcatanza, nforro, rjones |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | man-pages-5.13-4.fc36 man-pages-5.12-3.fc35 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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| Last Closed: | 2022-08-12 01:38:11 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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Description
Florian Weimer
2022-08-09 12:59:48 UTC
FEDORA-2022-9ca17d750d has been submitted as an update to Fedora 36. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-9ca17d750d FEDORA-2022-9ca17d750d has been pushed to the Fedora 36 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-9ca17d750d` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-9ca17d750d See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates. FEDORA-2022-d10909281d has been pushed to the Fedora 35 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-d10909281d` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-d10909281d See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates. FEDORA-2022-9ca17d750d has been pushed to the Fedora 36 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report. How annoying to no longer be able to have the POSIX standard man pages available as a package. They help countless developers write portable code. > The 2017 IEEE license has recently been recognized as not allowed for Fedora: This page is in disagreement: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/. (In reply to phoebos from comment #5) > How annoying to no longer be able to have the POSIX standard man pages > available as a package. They help countless developers write portable code. > > > The 2017 IEEE license has recently been recognized as not allowed for Fedora: > > This page is in disagreement: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/. This refers not to the 2017 IEEE license, but to an older version that permits modified redistribution. Is it possible to distribute an older version of these man pages that might be available under a permissible license? (In reply to James Cassell from comment #7) > Is it possible to distribute an older version of these man pages that might > be available under a permissible license? I think it would be possible to go back to version 2013-a, does it make sense though? (In reply to Nikola Forró from comment #8) > (In reply to James Cassell from comment #7) > > Is it possible to distribute an older version of these man pages that might > > be available under a permissible license? > > I think it would be possible to go back to version 2013-a, does it make > sense though? I think shipping out-of-date POSIX documentation would be quite confusing. The manual pages are available online (in HTML form) from The Open Group. I usually use that because there are many cross-references to supporting documentation, and that documentation is not part of the manual pages that used to be shipped in the man-pages package. I'm also not sure if the man-pages version has all corrigenda applied. FEDORA-2022-d10909281d has been pushed to the Fedora 35 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report. I asked on today's Austin Group meeting if the POSIX folks were aware of any reason why the license is incompatible; their answer was roughly "no one has contacted the Austin Group asking for a chance to work out the legal difficulties and come up with an acceptable license". Who would I contact at Red Hat legal to get in touch with the Austin Group to see if this is something where we could fix the licensing to get the POSIX man pages back in Fedora under an updated license? (In reply to Eric Blake from comment #11) > I asked on today's Austin Group meeting if the POSIX folks were aware of any > reason why the license is incompatible; their answer was roughly "no one has > contacted the Austin Group asking for a chance to work out the legal > difficulties and come up with an acceptable license". Who would I contact > at Red Hat legal to get in touch with the Austin Group to see if this is > something where we could fix the licensing to get the POSIX man pages back > in Fedora under an updated license? The previous license is still approved for Fedora: <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:IEEEDocLicense> Maybe simply revert to that? Fedora legal thread: Updated IEEE license <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/HV5XITZ5R27DKWDYP3INA574LQFOJQTV/> |