On 03/12/2011 09:16 PM, lakshminaras2002@xxxxxxxxx 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 == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
