The following license (from the FCGI perl module) looks to be mostly MIT, but with a couple of extra bits. I'm pretty sure this is still free, but I'm not sure it can still be considered to be MIT. Could I get a clarification? We ship our stock perl package with a soft dependency on the FCGI module, so I found it odd that we don't already ship it. I hope it's not due to this license.
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Well, it turns out that the perl module I was looking for is already packaged in the fcgi-perl module; doh. But I note that it has License: BSD, which doesn't seem to be quite correct for the license I posted. So perhaps a clarification is still in order.
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On 05/02/2010 03:21 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
Well, it turns out that the perl module I was looking for is already packaged in the fcgi-perl module; doh. But I note that it has License: BSD, which doesn't seem to be quite correct for the license I posted. So perhaps a clarification is still in order.
So, that new license is derived from MIT, but it is different enough to merit its own shortname. I've added it to Licensing, use:
License: OML
Please also file a bug against fcgi-perl to have its license tag corrected, block FE-Legal.
Thanks,
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"TC" == Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa@redhat.com writes:
TC> Please also file a bug against fcgi-perl to have its license tag TC> corrected, block FE-Legal.
Bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588379
Is there any need to rebuild the package for this?
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