On 03/12/2011 09:16 PM, lakshminaras2002(a)gmail.com wrote:
Hello
I am reviewing mpdas
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680657.
The sources are licensed under BSD license. There is one file in the
sources md5.cpp which has been authored by a different entity and has a
separate license text. The contents look to be from a md5.c file put
inside a cpp file. The license text is close to MIT but I am not
completely sure about that.
I have two doubts
1) Is this package acceptable in Fedora? Reason is that if the whole set
of sources are under BSD then this md5.cpp is also under that license.
Would the new author have permission to do this?
2) If yes to @1, should the packager mention two licenses in the spec file?
Well, first of all, in situations like this, please provide a copy of
the license. Specifically, the one on the md5.c file. It saves me time
and the tiniest bit of sanity.
In this case, I dug out the file from the SRPM, and determined that the
license on the md5.c file is "zlib", which is fine for Fedora.
License tag should be:
License: BSD and zlib
~tom
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