FS#75663 - [tea] unlicensed code in statically linked dependency

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Imre Jonk (imrejonk) - Monday, 22 August 2022, 05:01 GMT
Last edited by George Rawlinson (rawlinsong) - Monday, 22 August 2022, 10:01 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To George Rawlinson (rawlinsong)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

unidiff-comments, one of the statically linked Go dependencies of the 'tea' program, has not been released by its author under a license that allows free redistribution. We therefore cannot redistribute the 'tea' package.

See also: https://artemis.sh/2022/08/21/this-program-is-illegally-packaged-in-14-distributions.html
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Closed by  George Rawlinson (rawlinsong)
Monday, 22 August 2022, 10:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  https://github.com/seletskiy/godiff/comm it/865648740d705a24a9cf927dfa73f45832214 1d9

Seems that the specific code/repository now has a license.
Comment by Imre Jonk (imrejonk) - Monday, 22 August 2022, 05:13 GMT
Upstream issue: https://gitea.com/gitea/tea/issues/492
Comment by Caleb Maclennan (alerque) - Monday, 22 August 2022, 09:59 GMT
Upstream has provided a license: https://github.com/seletskiy/godiff/issues/4

I suggest in this case it is not a big deal to just leave this and let the licensing fix trickle down to the next release.

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