[Fedora-legal-list] Is CMU Sphinx license an "MIT-style" license?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Tue Aug 21 01:18:29 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:49 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> [please CC me in replies; am not on mailing list]
> 
> I'm packaging up CMU Sphinx, and wanted confirmation that this license
> was OK for Fedora:
> http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/LICENSE
> 
> It appears to me to be yet another MIT-style license as per:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT
> 
> Is this correct?  Should I enter "MIT" in the License field of the
> specfiles?

Nope. This is two clause BSD. Put "BSD" in the License field.

~spot




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