[Fedora-legal-list] Regarding c++ source with a separate license

[Tom Callaway]

On 03/12/2011 09:16 PM, lakshminaras2002 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am reviewing mpdas https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680657.
> The  sources are licensed under BSD license. There is one file in the
> sources md5.cpp which has been authored by a different entity and has a
> separate license text. The contents look to be from a md5.c file put
> inside a cpp file. The license text is close to MIT but I am not
> completely sure about that.
> 
> I have two doubts
> 1) Is this package acceptable in Fedora? Reason is that if the whole set
> of sources are under BSD then this md5.cpp is also under that license.
> Would the new author have permission to do this?
> 2) If yes to @1, should the packager mention two licenses in the spec file?

Well, first of all, in situations like this, please provide a copy of
the license. Specifically, the one on the md5.c file. It saves me time
and the tiniest bit of sanity.

In this case, I dug out the file from the SRPM, and determined that the
license on the md5.c file is "zlib", which is fine for Fedora.

License tag should be:

License: BSD and zlib

~tom

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