#2910 Clarification to https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2153
Closed: Accepted 2 years ago by ref. Opened 2 years ago by ref.

Hi, this came to my attention because of a Fedora legal list post. In reading the #2153 ticket, a concern I have is that FESCo may have reached its approval decision assuming that the prebuilt Intel binaries are under a license that is normally acceptable for Fedora source (and binary) code.

E.g. npmccallum said: "The code for all three is available under a BSD license"

And subsequently puiterwijk said "they are available under an appropriate license"

While the license may be acceptable (we've asked to have it submitted for review) it has a novel feature that AFAIK hasn't been considered before (and which, if found acceptable, would require a change to the definition of what makes a firmware license legally acceptable) and I think FESCo should take another look at this in case for some reason the conclusion they reached was based on the assumption that the license applicable here was a normal BSD license. The fact that the conclusion here was this is okay "provided that Fedora Legal concurs" may signify that I am reading something into the discussion that wasn't actually there but just want to make sure, particularly since this is not firmware in the traditional Fedora sense.


In my understanding, "provided that Fedora Legal concurs" actually means that if legal says the license is OK, we are OK packaging this in Fedora. If legal says it is not OK, it is not.

OK I will interpret the previous decision that way, thanks. I'll close this.

Metadata Update from @ref:
- Issue close_status updated to: Accepted
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

2 years ago

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