[Fedora-legal-list] license for apt-mirror

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:33 +0200, Simon Wesp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i started a package review request for "apt mirror" a apt sources mirroring tool.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464308
> 
> I took the GPLv2 license tag from the debian package, because i found no informations about license in the source or on the homepage.
> 
> the first debianisation was with version 0.3.0 and the package author (the same as the upstream author) declare the license as gplv2. he is still the debian maintainer of this package and the license never changed.
> 
> copyright information from package 0.3.0:
> -
> This package was debianized by Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn at nsu.ru> on
> Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:44:33 +0700.
> 
> It was downloaded from http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Upstream Author(s): Dmitry N. Hramtsov <hdn at nsu.ru>

Email the upstream author, point out that his code doesn't have any
licensing, and ask him to:

A) Please confirm the license of the source code
B) Please add the licensing information to the code tarball

~spot