https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2018698
--- Comment #13 from Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com> ---
If I understand correctly (please correct me if I am confused), you want to
include in a Fedora package at least one of these files:
https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/blob/master/share/fs-uae/aros-amig...
https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/blob/master/share/fs-uae/aros-amig...
(you didn't specify this previously but I assume these are what you mean by
AROS ROMs)
These are apparently generated by the AROS project. I think your view is that
this should be allowed under an interpretation of Fedora's firmware exception.
The problem is that unlike typical nonfree firwmare licenses allowed by Fedora,
which are generally assumed to be self-compliant, the AROS license (which I'm
assuming applies to those .bin files) is a copyleft open source license with a
source availability requirement. The AROS license is essentially an old style
of vanity MPL derivative and would likely be acceptable for Fedora.
It isn't clear whether the fs-uae project itself is compliant with this
license. In any event, Fedora would have to comply with the AROS license.
This might be clearer (or it is for me anyway) if we imagine the AROS ROMs are
GPLv2-covered Linux kernel binaries for some exotic architecture Fedora itself
has no build systems for (there was in fact a historical case like this
involving a linux-firmware file, IIRC). Surely Fedora could not ship such
binaries without some solution to GPL source code compliance requirements.
So I think you would need to (a) see if the source code of these ROMs is
available, and confirm that source code is entirely under Fedora-allowed
licenses, (b) get approval from FESCo to include the ROMs in a Fedora package
given that these are third-party-built binary files, (c) come up with a plan
for how Fedora will meet the source code requirements of the AROS license and
get approval for that.
BTW this license would not be allowed in Fedora:
https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/blob/master/licenses/ipflib.txt
I don't know what that covers in the fs-uae repository.
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