On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote:

> El divendres, 30 de maig del 2025, a les 13:42:29 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa
> central), Neal Gompa va escriure:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote:
> > > El divendres, 30 de maig del 2025, a les 13:02:48 (Hora d’estiu
> d’Europa
> > >
> > > central), Neal Gompa va escriure:
> > > > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org>
> wrote:
> > > > > El divendres, 30 de maig del 2025, a les 12:51:08 (Hora d’estiu
> > > > > d’Europa
> > > > >
> > > > > central), Neal Gompa va escriure:
> > > > > > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org>
>
> wrote:
> > > > > > > We are trying to move most of the oss-fuzz related files to our
> > > > > > > reops
> > > > > > > instead of being in https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This will allow us to not have to depend on other people to
> merge
> > > > > > > changes
> > > > > > > in them which sometimes creates a bit of friction.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The problem is that those files are licenses under Apache 2
> which
> > > > > > > is
> > > > > > > not
> > > > > > > mentioned in
> https://community.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I would like to propose that we add a point 18 to the policy
> that
> > > > > > > says
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 18. Files involved in the oss-fuzz tooling can be licensed
> under
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > Apache
> > > > > > > License 2.0
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Comments?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Please see
> > > > > > >
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/karchive/-/merge_requests/125/di
> > > > > > > ffs
> > > > > > > for one of the various places we would use it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Why not maintain our own oss-fuzz repo where all this is
> contained?
> > > > > > The karchive MR seems to pollute the project with weird binary
> files
> > > > > > and such. I'd rather those not be in the repo.
> > > > >
> > > > > That's orthogonal to the "Accepting Apache 2" discussion, please
> let's
> > > > > focus on that.
> > > >
> > > > Honestly, it isn't. Because accepting that stuff at all is kind of
> the
> > > > reason for this.
> > > > I am fine with accepting Apache-2.0 content in a repo that's *all*
> > > > Apache-2.0 stuff.
> > > > From both the technical (this is goopy garbage)
> > >
> > > Can you please not be so disrespectful with something that is in no way
> > > garbage?
> >
> > The test case data files are *literally* garbage, so I think it is
> accurate.
> > > > and licensing
> > > > (Apache-2.0 with no exception sucks) perspective, I would only be
> okay
> > > > with it as its own repository.
> > >
> > > Sorry, but that is not going to happen, "tests" for code need to be
> with
> > > the code, not somewhere else.
> > >
> > > Can you please explain me what problem you have with a dozen of apt-get
> > > install/cmake/make lines being Apache-2.0?
> > >
> > > This is not going to pollute the rest of our code because no one is
> going
> > > to need to reuse that for anything else.
> >
> > It's not the scripts, it's the garbage data files.
>
> The data files are new and if you read the merge request you will see they
> are
> licensed under CC0-1.0
>
> > The scripts are not
> > even copyrightable in the first place and aren't worth this discussion
> > about Apache-2.0. Moreover, they aren't even needed in our environment
> > since we already have everything preinstalled in our CI images.
>
> Our CI images are not useful/used in this scenario.
>

Going a bit off topic here, but mind elaborating on this?
Seems a bit weird to have to compile Qt + involved Frameworks each time we
want to do a oss-fuzz run - especially when we already have built binaries
(and it doesn't look like they're doing anything too special when compiling
them either)


>
> >
> > The fuzzer code files basically force the project to be LGPLv3+
> > licensed as distributed since the combined work of LGPL-2.1-or-later +
> > Apache-2.0 means LGPL-3.0-or-later. I would prefer asking Google OSPO
> > if they can be relicensed to something within our policy instead. They
> > will likely grant it if we ask.
>
> If you want to ask them for a relicensing, sure, but as Ingo mentioned
> your
> rationale does not hold water.
>
> Best Regards,
>   Albert
>

Cheers,
Ben


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