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edl: package includes proprietary vendor binaries, yet is not marked unfree #348931

Closed samueldr closed 8 hours ago

samueldr commented 8 hours ago

Describe the bug

The vast majority of loaders in the edl package are of unknown origin, and were not provided "under license" for use for the project.

The package should have been licensed as unfree.

The NixOS cache now is holding hundreds of unlicensed proprietary, binaries. It probably should be cleaned given the number of intellectual property holders involved.

I'm filing the issue as a courtesy.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(oh, also, the license of the project changed since back then.)

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@lorenz @xddxdd

also @SuperSandro2000 who merged in #216708.

winterqt commented 8 hours ago

License change done in #348934.

winterqt commented 8 hours ago

Note that the package was also unilaterally relicensed to GPL, yikes.