Re: perl-Nmap-Parser license changed from GPLv2+ to MIT

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On 03/01/2010 11:48 AM, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Iain Arnell wrote:
> 
>> Whilst cleaning up some recently adopted orphans, I discovered that
>> perl-Nmap-Parser has been tagged with the wrong license since August
>> 2008. Upstream changed the license from GPLv2+ to MIT sometime back in
>> 2007 and I've just corrected it in rawhide (and will do on all
>> branches too in the near future). Presumably this isn't a problem for
>> anyone since it's less restrictive now.
> 
> Assuming the author asked all their contributors permission as well, if
> there were any.

As a general rule, we assume upstream relicensing actions are done
appropriately unless there is obvious evidence to the contrary.

~spot
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