On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 2:52 PM <h-k-81@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello > > > During a package review [1], the question arose whether the package > under review had an acceptable license [2]. > Looking at the git log I can see the following commits were done to the > COPYRIGHT file: > > > ``` > commit d7c9ecae0492bbdd449fd8e3ccf94abf73ea5f36 > Author: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Dec 5 14:46:48 2015 +0000 > > Relicense under GPL > ... > ... > commit 3fe4b3520e0502d0a2822d6d19ef8374960c0a3c > Author: Kornel Lesiński <kornel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun Mar 2 19:18:51 2014 +0000 > > Changed license to the simplified BSD license > ``` > > It seems that the license changed two times in the past. I'm not sure > what that would mean and if it's okay, as I have little experience with > open source licenses. Based on the quickest glance, I wonder whether the current maintainer has adequately preserved any third-party license notices from the "simplified BSD" period (which I guess predates the Rust version), but we normally wouldn't do that level of research based on pure speculation. There's nothing inherently problematic about a BSD-licensed project relicensing to GPLv3. > FYI: The package that I am trying to get into fedora is a rewrite of a C > library [3] that is already packaged for fedora. So this should mean > that the license is acceptable, right? Not necessarily, since it is possible for licensing problems in previously-included packages to have been overlooked, or to have been dealt with in ways that may not satisfy present-day Fedora standards. But I don't see anything here that suggests there is any problem. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
