Package review - How handle licence in source code only?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Oct 29 15:01:32 UTC 2008


Adam Tkac <atkac <at> redhat.com> writes:
> I'm reviewing dnsperf package -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467798. Licence of code is
> written only in source code itself:

Assuming _all_ the source files carry the notice, this is not a problem, things 
become a bit murkier when some files are missing the notice, but usually you 
can assume they just forgot to add it to those files. (What _is_ a problem, 
though, is when some sources include some conflicting or non-Free license.)

>  * Copyright (C) 2004 - 2008 Nominum, Inc.
>  *
>  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
>  * documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted,
>  * provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice
>  * appear in all copies.
> ...
> 
> What should be correct licence tag? The licence is BSD compatible so
> can I recommend BSD licence tag?

This sounds like a variant of the MIT X11 license, so it should be:
License: MIT

        Kevin Kofler




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