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Bug 578873 - Update license tag to BSD
Summary: Update license tag to BSD
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 234191
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: arpack
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Axel Thimm
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FE-Legal
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-01 16:08 UTC by Matt McCutchen
Modified: 2010-04-08 19:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-04-08 19:41:41 UTC
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Description Matt McCutchen 2010-04-01 16:08:30 UTC 
Description of problem:
Octave, which is licensed under GPLv3+, links with arpack, which is licensed under RiceBSD, which was determined in bug 234191 to be GPL-incompatible.  This is not allowed under the FSF's interpretation that linking creates a derivative work, which Fedora is using.  (I'm pursing this in an effort to help Fedora comply with its own policies, without implying that I think the FSF is right.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
octave-3.2.3-4.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qf $(ldd /usr/libexec/octave/3.2.3/oct/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/eig.oct \
        | grep arpack | awk '{ print $3 }') --qf '%{LICENSE}\n'
Comment 1 Matt McCutchen 2010-04-01 20:38:55 UTC 
David Bateman pointed out in bug 234191 comment 11 that the arpack license has changed to BSD.  So there is no incompatibility; instead, the arpack license tag just needs to be updated in Fedora.
Comment 2 Axel Thimm 2010-04-07 17:07:13 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 234191 ***
Comment 3 Matt McCutchen 2010-04-07 17:14:32 UTC 
If you want to dup this to bug 234191, then bug 234191 needs to be reopened and morphed to request the updating of the license tag in Fedora.
Comment 4 Axel Thimm 2010-04-07 18:13:45 UTC 
Please check on the bug's status first, there are even builds underway.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 234191 ***
Comment 5 Matt McCutchen 2010-04-07 18:21:11 UTC 
Bug 234191's status is CLOSED UPSTREAM.  As I said, it needs to be reopened before marking this one as a duplicate.  I would do that, but I don't have editbugs.
Comment 6 Alex Lancaster 2010-04-08 19:41:41 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Bug 234191's status is CLOSED UPSTREAM.  As I said, it needs to be reopened
> before marking this one as a duplicate.  I would do that, but I don't have
> editbugs.    

Fixing this as a dupe, and will re-open the other.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 234191 ***
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