Bug 2258654 - libieee1284 uses license GFDL-1.1-or-later for code - that is not allowed
Summary: libieee1284 uses license GFDL-1.1-or-later for code - that is not allowed
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libieee1284
Version: 40
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FE-Legal
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Reported: 2024-01-16 21:14 UTC by Miroslav Suchý
Modified: 2024-02-15 23:10 UTC (History)
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Description Miroslav Suchý 2024-01-16 21:14:46 UTC 
I run license analysis for libieee1284 
  http://miroslav.suchy.cz/fedora/spdx-reports/libieee1284
and I found that 
  libieee1284/libieee1284-0.2.11/src/parport.h
uses license 
  GFDL-1.1-or-later
but that license is allowed only for content
  https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/main/data/GFDL-1.1-or-later.toml?ref_type=heads

To me, this seems like an accidental use of the wrong header. But please resolve it with upstream.
Or remove this file from package. Or resolve it with Fedora legals.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2024-01-17 15:39:46 UTC 
Looks like I was the initial committer for that file, which came from the Linux kernel headers.
Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2024-02-15 23:10:20 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 40 development cycle.
Changing version to 40.
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