[Fedora-legal-list] Ambiguous license stated by upstream

[Eduardo Mayorga Téllez]

Hi,

I came into this issue while I was reviewing python-gitapi[1] in BZ. The 
author does not include a license file in the sources, and even worse, 
one can read this in the README[2] file:

<snip>
License

Copyright (c) Fredrik Håård

Do whatever you want, don't blame me. You may also use this software as 
licensed under the MIT or BSD licenses, or the more permissive license 
below:

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:

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 THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS 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.
</snip>

This looks like a MIT variant. The packager patched the package adding a 
MIT license copy. I'm not sure what to do about this. I added FE-Legal 
as blocking bug to the package review ticket. I hope you can give me 
some guidance.

Thanks,
Eduardo


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129902
[2] 
https://bitbucket.org/haard/gitapi/raw/ba6a152901d5772454c90a3d779d461db8ae2c74/README.rst

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