Licensing issue in mantis

[Christopher Aillon]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> Mantis (php) codebase includes a module which comes from a 3rd party
> project and is licensed with a "free for non commercial use" style
> clause which is, AFAICT, incompatible with the GPL.
> Is removing the offending file from the rpm package during %install enough?

It would still be in the SRPM right?  So, probably not.

> Is upstream compelled to remove it as well?

That is up to upstream, but you should definitely point it out to them, 
and ask that at the least it be distributed as a separate download.