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Summary: Review Request: figlet - FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

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Summary: Review Request: figlet - FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: medium Priority: medium Component: Package Review AssignedTo: nobody@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: rayvd@bludgeon.org QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: notting@redhat.com, fedora-package-review@redhat.com Estimated Hours: 0.0 Classification: Fedora

Spec URL: http://rayvd.fedorapeople.org/figlet/figlet.spec SRPM URL: http://rayvd.fedorapeople.org/figlet/figlet-2.2.2-1.src.rpm Description: FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text

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--- Comment #1 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2009-03-12 00:16:41 EDT --- Can't believe this isn't already in Fedora. License appears to be OK?

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--- Comment #2 from Jason Tibbitts tibbs@math.uh.edu 2009-03-12 01:32:35 EDT --- There have been significant license issues in the past. Did check the previous attempt, bug 454917? Has the license on the offending code changed?

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--- Comment #3 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2009-03-12 09:27:12 EDT --- (In reply to comment #2)

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There have been significant license issues in the past. Did check the previous attempt, bug 454917? Has the license on the offending code changed?

Oops, guess throwing 'figlet' in the search box wasn't enough. I'm betting whatever licensing issues existed before still do. I saw Academic and figured it was OK. Will confirm. Silly licensing... :-)

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Ray Van Dolson rvandolson@esri.com changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Ray Van Dolson rvandolson@esri.com 2009-03-12 11:19:31 EDT --- Definitely looks like the routines to decompress compressed font files are under an incompatible license. I want to look into the following:

* Contact author mentioned in these files to see if he'd consider relicensing the code (if possible). * Contact upstream (if they're even active) and get their thoughts. I'd think either we don't care so much about compressed font files anymore, or could switch to using unzip routines from somewhere else.

That failing, looks like rpmrepo might be the place for this.

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--- Comment #5 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2009-03-12 11:31:32 EDT --- Posted this[1] to the figlet mailing list.

[1]: http://www.plig.net/mailman/private/figlet/2009-March/000159.html

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Simon Wesp cassmodiah@fedoraproject.org changed:

--- Comment #6 from Simon Wesp cassmodiah@fedoraproject.org 2009-03-12 11:37:28 EDT --- you should copy paste your mail. just for members :-(

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--- Comment #7 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2009-03-12 11:45:56 EDT --- Good idea. Forgot the list was private.

Posted to figlet mailing list:

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:28:28 -0700 From: Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org To: figlet@figlet.org Subject: [FIGlet] Licensing issues with figlet User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05)

Hello all;

I'm trying to get figlet included in Fedora[1] but have run into a snag with the licenses of a couple of the source files relating to decompressing zipfiles of compressed fonts. Namely, crc.c, crc.h, inflate.c, inflate.h, zipio.c and zipio.h. It appears three of the files, chkfont.c, figlist and showfigfonts have no licensing notice at all in them.

If there are any developers out there on this list, could I get some comments?

* Can the zipfile related routines be relicensed? I imagine we'd have to contact the original author listed there for this, maybe he's on this list? I'll try the email listed there as well. * Could these routines be rewritten to use something free? Should be existing code out there that could be reused for this purpose. * Maybe we don't need compressed font files at all anymore, disk space is not as big of an issue these days.

Thoughts appreciated. Please see the bz link above for comments and concerns. Also this[2] debian bug gives a bit more detailed commentary.

Ray

[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489830 [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274950

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--- Comment #8 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2009-03-12 11:47:15 EDT --- Email to author of non-free content:

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:37:00 -0700 From: Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org To: hamrick@primenet.com Subject: Relicensing zipfile routines that are part of figlet User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05)

Hello;

There are several source files part of the figlet package[1] that are under a non-free license requiring notice of modifications to the code to be sent to you within 30 days.

I'm wondering if you'd be willing to consider relicensing this code under a more "free" license? The code in question is here:

ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet222/crc.c ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet222/crc.h ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet222/inflate.c ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet222/inflate.h ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet222/zipio.c ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet222/zipio.h

Thanks, Ray

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--- Comment #9 from Jason Tibbitts tibbs@math.uh.edu 2009-03-12 12:52:40 EDT --- On the remote chance that upstream can actually locate the authors of that ancient code and get it relicenced, or they decide to replace the code with free versions, please clear the whiteboard field so this drops back into the review queue.

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--- Comment #10 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2009-03-12 21:15:24 EDT --- Update on this for the curious:

- One of the authors of the code agreed to release it to as public domain so we could relicense it as whatever. - The zipfile routine author has still not responded.

Of further complication is that there is not real maintainer of figlet currently. Trying to figure out if we can rectify that and make a new release on the code.

Also, I'm wondering... the clause in the zipfile routines says any changes must be emailed to the author within 30 days. Could this feasibly include licensing changes? We could make a new release, change the license on the code and send notification of this to his email address as required by the current license...

Anyways, will see what comes of all this.

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--- Comment #11 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2009-03-13 09:48:11 EDT --- Per legal list it is a bad idea to change the license on the code. :-) Figured as much.

People seem interested in a new release however, so we'll try to get this moving along and I'll look into stripping out the zipfile routines.

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Simon Wesp cassmodiah@fedoraproject.org changed:

--- Comment #12 from Simon Wesp cassmodiah@fedoraproject.org 2009-06-30 01:17:03 EDT --- More than 3 months without response. I will close his. Please feel free to reopen it after licensing is 'free' (free speech not free beer) enough for Fedora!

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Jason Tibbitts tibbs@math.uh.edu changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Claudio Matsuoka cmatsuoka@gmail.com 2011-01-13 14:42:42 EST ---

FIGlet 2.2.3 was released with license changes which should make it truly free as in speech. Zipio has been relicensed by the author and is now under the MIT license, and the main package is now distributed under the 3-clause BSD license.

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--- Comment #14 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2011-01-13 14:48:19 EST --- Claudio, thanks for your work in making that happen. I'll get the new version packaged and reopen this bug shortly.

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Patrick C. F. Ernzer pcfe@redhat.com changed:

--- Comment #15 from Patrick C. F. Ernzer pcfe@redhat.com 2011-02-04 03:58:16 EST --- 2.2.4 is out these days.

As I built myself an updated and cleaned spec from Dag's old version before finding this bug, feel free to grab all the bits you want from http://pcfe.fedorapeople.org/figlet.spec http://pcfe.fedorapeople.org/figlet-2.2.4-1.src.rpm

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Jason Tibbitts tibbs@math.uh.edu changed:

--- Comment #16 from Jason Tibbitts tibbs@math.uh.edu 2011-02-04 10:13:33 EST --- Not sure why this was reopened now, when the submitter hasn't provided a package for review. Indicating this isn't ready yet; please clear the whiteboard when there's something for the reviewers to look at.

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--- Comment #17 from Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org 2011-02-04 10:25:47 EST --- Patrick, I'll get something put together this weekend hopefully. Thanks.

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--- Comment #18 from Kashyap Chamarthy kchamart@redhat.com 2012-04-15 03:17:52 EDT --- Ping.

Any update on this? More than an year+ since last response, still in 'Assigned' state.

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