Hi,
I came into this issue while I was reviewing python-gitapi[1] in BZ. The author does not include a license file in the sources, and even worse, one can read this in the README[2] file:
<snip> License
Copyright (c) Fredrik Håård
Do whatever you want, don't blame me. You may also use this software as licensed under the MIT or BSD licenses, or the more permissive license below:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so:
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. </snip>
This looks like a MIT variant. The packager patched the package adding a MIT license copy. I'm not sure what to do about this. I added FE-Legal as blocking bug to the package review ticket. I hope you can give me some guidance.
Thanks, Eduardo
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129902 [2] https://bitbucket.org/haard/gitapi/raw/ba6a152901d5772454c90a3d779d461db8ae2...