On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 11:35:02AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote: > The package libieee1284 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258654 > > has a licensing issue for more than a year. I contacted Tim (current package > mainatiner) and he has no plan to fix this issue. > > As a consequence I am going to retire this package by the end of this week.
This feels like an unnecessary action for this specific situation IMHO. 90% of the file is wrapped in a #ifdef __KERNEL__, so is not included in the Fedora build of this package and thus irrelevant for license compatibility. The bits that are relevant are the constants and there's a case to be made that this portion of the header can be considered non- copyrightable content, regardless of the license header statement. So while I agree with the view that GFDL-1.1-or-later not be used for code in Fedora, I don't think that's a problem in this specific case and doesn't warrant package removal. Regardless as a package in Fedora for 20+ years, it should be allowed to be a grandfathered in under previous Fedora license rules IMHO. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com ~~ https://hachyderm.io/@berrange :| |: https://libvirt.org ~~ https://entangle-photo.org :| |: https://pixelfed.art/berrange ~~ https://fstop138.berrange.com :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
