On 03/01/2010 11:48 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Iain Arnell wrote:
> Whilst cleaning up some recently adopted orphans, I discovered that
> perl-Nmap-Parser has been tagged with the wrong license since August
> 2008. Upstream changed the license from GPLv2+ to MIT sometime back in
> 2007 and I've just corrected it in rawhide (and will do on all
> branches too in the near future). Presumably this isn't a problem for
> anyone since it's less restrictive now.
Assuming the author asked all their contributors permission as well, if
there were any.
As a general rule, we assume upstream relicensing actions are done
appropriately unless there is obvious evidence to the contrary.
~spot