[Fedora-legal-list] python-timelib licensing

[Tom Callaway]

On 02/01/2012 12:44 PM, Ian Weller wrote:
> I'm looking at python-timelib, a package required for python-mwlib,
> something we're trying to use in the Docs Project.
> 
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/timelib
> 
> timelib basically exports some functions of PHP's date library as a
> Python extension, so the C code for the timelib extension would link
> against code from PHP.
> 
> timelib is licensed under what it calls the zlib/libpng license:
>   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/timelib#license
> and PHP has its own license.
> 
> Is this legally sane/acceptable in Fedora, or do I need to talk to
> upstream and get them to fix it? (How would they fix it -- what kind of
> license would they need to change to?)

Nah, zlib is fine. Permissive and compatible with PHP's license.

~tom

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