On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:56:55 -0400 Robin Norwood <rnorwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > So there was a question about licenses for one of my perl rpms in > Fedora, and I asked Tom Callaway about it. He explained that the > correct tag for my module, as well as any that are distributed 'under > the same terms as perl itself' is: > > License: GPL+ or Artistic > > So you may want to update the license field as you go (Not blindly, of > course...there are probably exceptions). rpmlint (at least up to rpmlint-0.80-2) still complains about this: W: perl-Authen-DigestMD5 invalid-license Artistic The licensing page on the wiki says that "GPL+Artistic" is OK (probably should say "GPL+ or Artistic" for clarity) in the "Bad Licenses" table entry for Artistic, and since this is going to be a very common combination, I'd suggest that rpmlint include this exception in the license check. Ville, should I raise this on the rpmlint trac, in Fedora bugzilla, or is this email enough? Paul.
