Bug 967416 - audacity included non-free codes.
Summary: audacity included non-free codes.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: audacity
Version: 18
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Manuel F Martinez
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FE-Legal
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-27 04:50 UTC by mejiko
Modified: 2013-05-28 14:08 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-05-28 14:08:20 UTC
Type: Bug
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Debian BTS 631068 0 None None None Never
GNU Savannah 33410 0 None None None Never

Description mejiko 2013-05-27 04:50:44 UTC
Hello.


SRC RPM is: "audacity-2.0.3-1.fc18.src.rpm"


audacity include non-free code.


Files:

audacity-src-2.0.3/lib-src/libnyquist/nyquist/xlisp/*

This license is "non-commercial use only", Its non-free.


Suggests:

1. remove non-free code and rebuild.
2. replace fedora free (acceptable licensed) files.
3. remove fedora repos.

Thanks.


Reference:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631068
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=33410

Comment 1 mejiko 2013-05-27 04:51:34 UTC
Blocking FE-Legal, This is license problem.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2013-05-28 14:08:20 UTC
The header files have simply not been updated to reflect the change in license for these files to BSD. The license.txt in the nyquist subdir has the correct licensing terms. This is NOTABUG, because we know the BSD license applies here. (Debian had the same stance and closed this bug out once the new license text was provided by upstream).

That said, Hans, please ask audacity upstream to correct the header files under lib-src/libnyquist/nyquist to either have the proper license (or simply refer to license.txt).

I've also committed a change in rawhide to include the nyquist readme.txt and license.txt to eliminate ambiguity here.


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