[Fedora-legal-list] Regarding c++ source with a separate license
Tom Callaway
tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Mar 18 04:30:50 UTC 2011
On 03/14/2011 08:31 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 00:22 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
>> 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
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I had a tiny clarification to make:
>
> The md5 implementation that this package uses (and the one you saw) is
> the one by Peter Deutsch[1] and is listed here[2]. The latter page only
> says that one must provide a virtual provides: in the spec,
>
> Provides: bundled(md5-deutsch)
>
> It does not mention addition to the License: tag.
>
> So, should I add both, the zlib as a license and a virtual provides?
Yes.
~tom
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