legal April 2020

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License list synchronization for rpminspect
by David Cantrell 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

Hi, rpminspect performs a License tag validation on packages. The license data comes from a JSON data file that I think was produced at some point from the Fedora charts on the wiki but then never really updated. Consequently, it raises failures that are incorrect per current licensing data. The data for rpminspect comes from: https://github.com/rpminspect/rpminspect-data-fedora The license data is in licenses/fedora.json The format should be somewhat easy to understand. I didn't create it. I found this database and ran with it. I'd like to come up with a way to keep it in sync with the data on the wiki. Right now I advise package maintainers to send me pull requests to update the data, but that's not going to be a long term solution. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Ideas of how to keep the information up to date in all locations? Thanks, -- David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> Red Hat, Inc. | Boston, MA | EST5EDT

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Open CASCADE Technology licence for versions 6.7.0 and later.
by Przemo Firszt 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

There was a change of OCCT licence for version 6.7.0. It's LGPL + additional clause. The full text is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Open_CASCADE_Technology_Public_Lic… The additional clause: Open CASCADE Exception (version 1.0) to GNU LGPL version 2.1. The object code (i.e. not a source) form of a "work that uses the Library" can incorporate material from a header file that is part of the Library. As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, you may distribute such object code incorporating material from header files provided with the Open CASCADE Technology libraries (including code of CDL generic classes) under terms of your choice, provided that you give prominent notice in supporting documentation to this code that it makes use of or is based on facilities provided by the Open CASCADE Technology software. Is it a show stopper for fedora?

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List of formats that have been examined for patent expiration?
by Victor Grousset 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Hi :) I have found info about MP3 and AAC-LC https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/MP3 https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/10/12/aac-support-will-be-available-in-… Are there other format that have been examined? Whether to confirm their expiry or to have a reliable future expiration date. Going further: Are there other resources than Fedora Legal team past work where one can check for existing legal work on a format? -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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