Re: passwd license clarification

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 06:09:52PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> the "passwd" package has contained
>   License: BSD or GPLv2+
> however, there is no "version 2 or later" clause in any of the
> copyright notices.  So I've just updated it to
>   License: BSD or GPL+
> and will build this in F18 and rawhide.

>From the COPYING file, it looks like the actual intention is to license
under a BSD license with an exception for converting to GPL. But, Since the
three-clause BSD license is used, it's my understanding that that's not
really necessary. Since Red Hat holds the copyright and there do not appear
to be any non-Red Hat authors, maybe the best thing to do would be simply to
ask if we can relicense this as BSD 2-clause and be done with it?


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