[Fedora-legal-list] Question: Licensing of xmltramp.py

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:47 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=378531
> "Review Request: python-xmltramp - xmltramp is a pythonic API for
> working with XML"
> 
> The payload is a single file:
> http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/xmltramp/xmltramp-2.17.py
> which has this text:
> __copyright__ = "(C) 2003-2006 Aaron Swartz. GNU GPL 2."
> 
> Re comment #2 of the review:
> "this package should include License text or file.
> Ask upstream to release either tarball containing this script and
> license or ask
> them to put license text in that script.
> 
> It seemed simplest to add an appropriate header text to the script,
> so I emailed the upstream author requesting he do this (with proposed
> patches; message attached).
> 
> I've not heard back.
> 
> Is this a blocker for inclusion of this code in Fedora, or is the "GNU
> GPL 2" text in the script good enough as is?

Not a blocker, tag it as License: GPLv2 and put a comment in the spec
file about the missing License text.

~spot