Re: passwd license clarification

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:09:29PM +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > 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?
> I want the spec file to not be misleading, but I don't think involving
> lawyers, only to simplify a license of 1789 lines of code, code that
> is very liberally licensed in any case, is really worth the effort.

Probably not. :)

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