Bug 629214
Summary: | license violation - phpMyAdmin (GPLv2) bundles OLE (PHP) | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Iain Arnell <iarnell> |
Component: | phpMyAdmin | Assignee: | Robert Scheck <redhat-bugzilla> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | mmcgrath, redhat-bugzilla, tcallawa |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | phpMyAdmin3-3.4.5-1.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2011-09-27 22:58:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 725914 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 182235, 504493 |
Description
Iain Arnell
2010-09-01 10:09:24 UTC
I agree here. The clearest solution would be to unbundle PHPExcel from phpMyAdmin and patch it to use php-pear-OLE. This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. Hey new owner, please try to address this issue. I would normally just dive in and do it, but my PHP skills are weak at best. Sorry, PHPExcel is still not packaged for Fedora. And the OLE that is used by PHPExcel seems to be a slightly forked copy. Do you plan on working on this, or should we just retire phpMyAdmin? :) Can we retire phpMyAdmin at upstream, please? Even if retiring phpMyAdmin at downstream would be also cool, this issue needs to be solved, I think... Tom, do you want to help? I would need a package review for bug #725914, which is required to get PHPExcel as "php-pear-PHPExcel" done. Tom, I'm not sure if PHPExcel can be packaged as it is - even when we patch it to use the system php-pear-OLE. The upstream PHPExcel package bundles some more foreign libraries, I think. May you do a legal check? Well, it has TCPDF (LGPLv3+) bundled inside of it, and I think I've already made my concerns about it clear (re: bundling of fonts in odd ways), but from a strict licensing perspective, here's what I found: * TCPDF (overall LGPLv3+, but bundles the following fonts): - Al-Mohanad (unknown license) - dejavu-*-fonts (Bitstream Vera and Public Domain, in Fedora) - gnu-free-fonts (GPLv2+ with font exception, in Fedora) - Zar Bold (GPLv2+) It also has: * JAMA (mix of Public Domain and PHP), closest thing to an upstream I could find was here: http://php.livejournal.com/270125.html * OLE/PPS (PHP) derived from,OLE::Storage_Lite * PclZip (GPL+ or LGPLv2+) The rest is LGPLv2+. Excluding the fonts, there are no licensing compatibility concerns, and I'm not going to give myself a headache and consider the license compatibility issues with embedded fonts in the php code to the rest of the php code. The notable exception is Al-Mohanad, which either needs to have its license identified or simply removed. So, in conclusion: Bundling galore, including particularly nasty TCPDF, but licensing is okay at: "LGPLv2+ and LGPLv3+ and PHP", assuming that the fonts are unbundled (if even possible, it may not be) and Al-Mohanad is removed. There's a lot of assumptions in there. TCPDF is going to be a holy terror to package properly. phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc16 phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc15 phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc14 phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.el6 phpMyAdmin3-3.4.5-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/phpMyAdmin3-3.4.5-1.el5 Package phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.el6: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.el6' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.el6 then log in and leave karma (feedback). phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. phpMyAdmin3-3.4.5-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |