Package review - How handle licence in source code only?

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 11:35:24 UTC 2008


Hi,
the best solution I think is to ask authors to
clarify license and ask them to include LICENSE
file in source tarball.

R.
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Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base OS Core Services Brno
Red Hat, Inc.
+420 532 294 275

----- "Adam Tkac" <atkac at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm reviewing dnsperf package -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467798. Licence of code
> is
> written only in source code itself:
> 
> ...
>  * Copyright (C) 2004 - 2008 Nominum, Inc.
>  *
>  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
> its
>  * documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby
> granted,
>  * provided that the above copyright notice and this permission
> notice
>  * appear in all copies.
> ...
> 
> What should be correct licence tag? The licence is BSD compatible so
> can I recommend BSD licence tag?
> 
> Regards, Adam
> 
> -- 
> Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.
> 
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