[Bug 1609221] License 'public domain' is not valid

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1609221

Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|CLOSED                      |ASSIGNED
         Resolution|NOTABUG                     |---
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--- Comment #3 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com&gt; ---
Okay, that is a different situation. Copyright has not been abandoned (or
expired) on this work, the author has merely granted a sort of meta-license
which permits for any OSI approved license to be applied.

Technically, "Public Domain" is not an OSI approved license, so it is not a
valid choice (though, I suspect it was the maintainer's attempt to quantify
that weird meta-license).

The easy fix is to change the License field to be something permissive and OSI
approved. I would suggest changing the spec to:

# Technically, the license allows us to choose any OSI approved license, so we 
# choose MIT for maximal compatibility.
License: MIT

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