Bug 1024708 - cowsay included non-free art
Summary: cowsay included non-free art
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cowsay
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rahul Sundaram
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FE-Legal
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-30 09:47 UTC by mejiko
Modified: 2014-01-22 19:40 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-01-22 19:40:01 UTC
Type: Bug
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1020893 0 unspecified CLOSED Non-free/problematic karts included 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

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).
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