https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522



--- Comment #91 from Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <[email protected]> 
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(In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #88)
> The thing is, this kind of transitory approval:
> 
> (quoting Tom "spot" Callaway from comment #75)
> > If the FSF provides clarity, I will add it to this ticket. Obviously, if
> > they find it to be non-free (and this package is added to Fedora), it will
> > be subsequently removed.
> 
> is going to cause a lot of pain for RPM Fusion, who may end up having to
> move this package back and forth between their free and nonfree sections,
> and all the work on a -freeworld package can end up being wasted.
> 
> I do not see why we need to rush this and cannot wait for a conclusive
> answer on the licensing status. (If RHEL 8 is the reason, it is NOT
> appropriate to rush incomplete things into Fedora just to get them
> automatically merged into RHEL.)

The thing is nobody experienced in license review is actually expecting the FSF
to declare this non-free. I know Tom doesn't and I know RH legal doesn't. So we
are asking the FSF for a review out of an abundance of caution, but it is silly
to hold up merging this feature due to an extremely unlikely outcome.

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