Bug 1003854 - Third party license problem (non-free and new license)
Summary: Third party license problem (non-free and new license)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glassfish-toplink-essentials
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: gil cattaneo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 901759
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-03 11:31 UTC by mejiko
Modified: 2013-09-03 21:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-09-03 20:16:40 UTC
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Description mejiko 2013-09-03 11:31:02 UTC
Hello.

glassfish-toplink-essentials include 3rd party License text.

See: glassfish-bootstrap/legal/3RD-PARTY-LICENSE.txt

This license included Json license (Its non-free), and New License (Stax API).
but this licensed code is unknown.

Suggests:

1. Search there licensed code, license review, and remove or replace non-free code.

2. Contact upstream author.

3. Remove fedora repos.

Thanks

Reference:

http://lintian.debian.org/tags/license-problem-json-evil.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#Bad_Licenses
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#JSON
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/license-problem-json-evil.html

Comment 1 mejiko 2013-09-03 11:31:49 UTC
Blocking FE-Legal, This is license problem.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2013-09-03 20:16:40 UTC
This is a false positive. Nothing in this package is actually under the non-free JSON license, and the Stax API code is not present.

This "3RD-PARTY-LICENSE.txt" appears to be a "cover all the bases" sort of license text.


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