[Fedora-legal-list] License of docbook-style-xsl package

[Tom Callaway]

On 04/23/2013 10:50 AM, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> I noticed that docbook-style-xsl package has License tag set to "Copyright
> only". However this is the text of COPYING file:
> 
> Copyright
> ---------
> Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Norman Walsh
> Copyright (C) 2003 Jiří Kosek
> Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Steve Ball
> Copyright (C) 2005-2008 The DocBook Project
> Copyright (C) 2011-2012 O'Reilly Media
> 
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
> obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
> files (the ``Software''), to deal in the Software without
> restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
> copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
> sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
> conditions:
> 
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> Except as contained in this notice, the names of individuals
> credited with contribution to this software shall not be used in
> advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
> dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
> from the individuals in question.
> 
> Any stylesheet derived from this Software that is publically
> distributed will be identified with a different name and the
> version strings in any derived Software will be changed so that
> no possibility of confusion between the derived package and this
> Software will exist.
> 
> Warranty
> --------
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
> OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL NORMAN WALSH OR ANY OTHER
> CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
> WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
> OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> 
> 
> Is the above really considered copyright only? 

No. Except for that last clause, this is essentially MIT. Gonna need to
run it by RH Legal. :/

~tom

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