Bug 2130953 - Review Request: wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
Summary: Review Request: wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: NotReady
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-Legal
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-09-29 14:26 UTC by Lokesh Mandvekar
Modified: 2022-10-04 19:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-10-04 19:40:49 UTC
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Description Lokesh Mandvekar 2022-09-29 14:26:51 UTC
Spec URL: <spec info here>
SRPM URL: <srpm info here>
Description: <description here>
Fedora Account System Username:

Comment 1 Fabio Valentini 2022-09-29 14:42:57 UTC
Note that there was a previous attempt to package wasmtime:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051240

It was ultimately abandoned because of unclear licensing status of one of its components:
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/3912

And finally Legal did not approve the content in question - after months of waiting and poking, all I got was this response:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051229#c7

Maybe you'll have better luck getting responses from Legal, given that you're working for Red Hat ...

Comment 2 Lokesh Mandvekar 2022-09-29 14:56:42 UTC
(In reply to Fabio Valentini from comment #1)
> Note that there was a previous attempt to package wasmtime:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051240
> 
> It was ultimately abandoned because of unclear licensing status of one of
> its components:
> https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/3912
> 
> And finally Legal did not approve the content in question - after months of
> waiting and poking, all I got was this response:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051229#c7
> 
> Maybe you'll have better luck getting responses from Legal, given that
> you're working for Red Hat ...

Thank you for the pointers Fabio. We'll see if things have changed at all since then.

Comment 3 Petr Pisar 2022-09-29 15:59:26 UTC
Instead assigning to jnovy, you should block this review by FE-Legal <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Review_Process/#special_blocker_tickets>.

Comment 4 Lokesh Mandvekar 2022-09-29 18:24:07 UTC
No spec or srpm or anything right now. But setting FE-Legal regardless as Comment 3 suggested. 

We'll likely have to check with upstream and possibly the crate dependencies about relicensing from CC0, or perhaps check if a functional package can be built without any of the problem licenses.

Comment 5 Fabio Valentini 2022-09-29 18:33:46 UTC
Ah, I probably wasn't clear: The problem wasn't Code that was CC0 licensed, but rather code / interface definitions that aren't available under an open-source license *at all*.

Comment 6 Lokesh Mandvekar 2022-09-29 18:42:37 UTC
(In reply to Fabio Valentini from comment #5)
> Ah, I probably wasn't clear: The problem wasn't Code that was CC0 licensed,
> but rather code / interface definitions that aren't available under an
> open-source license *at all*.

ah ack, gotcha. Thanks

Comment 7 Lokesh Mandvekar 2022-10-04 19:40:49 UTC
Setting this to CLOSED DEFERRED as it's not a high-enough priority for the containers team or RH atm, in addition to the other issues as Fabio pointed out, so I'd rather not spend time on this. If anyone wants to take this forward, please go right ahead.

Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone.


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