Hi, I'm currently packaging Mbrola speech synthetizer for Fedora and we ran into an issue. Is it legal to package Mbrola voice files which have this https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices/blob/master/LICENSE.md license? If it is not, then is it legal to ask user if he/she wants to download them and with his/her consent install them? And then is it even allowed to package program into Fedora which is not useful without non-free files? Thanks for any help.
On 16. 01. 19 15:39, Tomáš Korbař wrote:
Hi, I'm currently packaging Mbrola speech synthetizer for Fedora and we ran into an issue.
Is it legal to package Mbrola voice files which have this https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices/blob/master/LICENSE.md license?
IMHO no.
"this database may not be sold or incorporated into any product which is sold without prior permission from the particular author of the voice database file"
This restriction makes it non-free.
If it is not, then is it legal to ask user if he/she wants to download them and with his/her consent install them?
Doing this in Fedora is (or at least was) not allowed:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_u...
(Sorry for the staging wiki link, not sure why I don't see this in the new guidelines location, ccing tibbs - was this restriction lifted, moved to licensing or incorrectly dropped when moving to docs.fp.o?)
And then is it even allowed to package program into Fedora which is not useful without non-free files?
No. See above.
"MH" == Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com writes:
MH> Doing this in Fedora is (or at least was) not allowed:
MH> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_u...
Of course that just points to an empty page. The link you are looking for is
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packag...
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On 16. 01. 19 16:32, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"MH" == Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com writes:
MH> Doing this in Fedora is (or at least was) not allowed:
MH> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_u...
Of course that just points to an empty page. The link you are looking for is
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packag...
Thanks. For my original note to make sense, the link in my email originally started with:
https://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/...
Which was a link I got form Google when searching for fedora guidelines external bits. I removed the stg part to check if it is still there and sent my e-mail with that broken link. Sorry about that.
I guess we should not let stg.fedoraproject.org be indexed by Google :( Will ask the website folks.
Thanks for help.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:40 PM Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com wrote:
On 16. 01. 19 16:32, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> "MH" == Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com writes:
MH> Doing this in Fedora is (or at least was) not allowed:
MH>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packages_which_are_not_u...
Of course that just points to an empty page. The link you are looking for is
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packag...
Thanks. For my original note to make sense, the link in my email originally started with:
https://stg.fedoraproject.org/wiki/...
Which was a link I got form Google when searching for fedora guidelines external bits. I removed the stg part to check if it is still there and sent my e-mail with that broken link. Sorry about that.
I guess we should not let stg.fedoraproject.org be indexed by Google :( Will ask the website folks.
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