[Bug 1199532] New: perl-DBI ships with a module released under Artistic (only) license

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199532

            Bug ID: 1199532
           Summary: perl-DBI ships with a module released under Artistic
                    (only) license
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 20
         Component: perl-DBI
          Severity: urgent
          Assignee: jplesnik@xxxxxxxxxx
          Reporter: psabata@xxxxxxxxxx
        QA Contact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                CC: jplesnik@xxxxxxxxxx, mmaslano@xxxxxxxxxx,
                    perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, psabata@xxxxxxxxxx



DBI::FAQ (lib/DBI/FAQ.pm) contains the following copyright notice:

### This document is Copyright (c)1994-2000 Alligator Descartes, with portions
### Copyright (c)1994-2000 their original authors. This module is released
under
### the 'Artistic' license which you can find in the perl distribution.

This is not a FSF free license; please, remove the file from the distribution. 
The upstream tarball needs to be modified so this file isn't distributed with
our SRPMs either.

If possible, convince upstream to re-license this file under a FSF free
license.

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