[Fedora-legal-list] Frontier Artistic License

[Richard Fontana]

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.) Aide is a GPLv2+ application in case you need to know 
> that as well.

Actually, I took a look at aide myself, and it turns out that the file
with the problematic license is the same code, snprintf.c, we
encountered in another package. I believe the developers of this code
intended for it to be dual-licensed under GPLv2 (the earlier license
of the code) and the Frontier Artistic License. See:
http://www.ijs.si/software/snprintf/
So that may solve the problem here.

- Richard