[Fedora-legal-list] npm license change
T.C. Hollingsworth
tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 20:55:11 UTC 2013
npm, the Node.js package manager, has changed license [1] from a
modified version of the MIT [2] to the Artistic 2.0 [3] license
effective with version 1.3.6. This version is now in Rawhide and
queued for updates-testing in Fedora 19 and 18 as well as EPEL 6.
Fedora Legal believes both licenses to be GPL-compatible so this
shouldn't cause anyone trouble. On the contrary, using a standard
license instead of a custom-written one should only make peoples'
lives easier. ;-)
-T.C.
[1] https://github.com/isaacs/npm/commit/c32391b1efd70a861cebc77e0cc784a46af5de21
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MITNFA
[3] http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0
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