On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 17:47 -0700, Wart wrote: > Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > > Got your attention? Good. > > > > GPL and LGPL are NOT acceptable License tags for Fedora. You cannot > > simply use "GPL" or "LGPL" as a license tag anymore. > > > > You have to use one of the following tags: > [...] > > I hope this is the right forum to ask questions to help clarify which > license to use for various packages. If not, then please direct me to > the correct forum. > > Many files in the iwidgets package use the following: > > # Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without > # license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this > # software and its documentation for any purpose, provided that the > # above copyright notice and the following two paragraphs appear in > # all copies of this software. > > This seems to be basically the MIT license, but with some minor > rephrasing. Before I start tagging the package as 'MIT and ...', I'd > like to verify that I can use 'MIT' here. Without seeing the whole text of the license, I can't be sure, but that beginning part sounds very much like MIT. Please send me a copy of the full license text, and I'll let you know for sure. ~spot -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
