[Fedora-legal-list] Frontier Artistic License

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Wed Feb 3 16:44:51 UTC 2010


On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:28:39AM -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We were doing a license review of the aide package and found that its shipping 
> a file that is released under the Frontier Artistic License:
> 
> http://www.spinwardstars.com/frontier/fal.html
> 
> Is this license acceptable to Fedora? (I couldn't find mention of it on the 
> Licensing wiki page.) 

No, I discussed this with Spot in a different context a year ago, and
the conclusion was that the Frontier Artistic License was not
acceptable for Fedora, given the non-acceptability of the Artistic
License 1.0.

- RF






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