Re: Custom license for bencode.js

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On 03/16/2016 09:46 AM, Stuart Gathman wrote:
> The cjdns package - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268716
> - is GPLv3, with some stuff BSD, MIT, and ISC.  I delete GPLv2 and ASL
> 2.0 stuff in %prep.
> 
> There is one file, bencode.js, with a custom license:
> 
>  /* Copyright (c) 2009 Anton Ekblad
>          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, subject to the following conditions:
>          The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in
>     all copies or substantial portions of the Software. */
> 
> IANAL, but it seems like BSD to me. But I was advised to ask
> legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx when in doubt.

It's actually MIT. Specifically, the Modern Style with sublicense, with
the warranty disclaimer omitted:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT#Modern_Style_with_sublicense

Omitting the warranty disclaimer makes it... slightly less sensible for
the copyright holder, but doesn't change anything for Fedora.

~tom

==
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