[Fedora-legal-list] ZPAQ

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Aug 24 16:18:44 UTC 2015


On 08/19/2015 09:28 PM, Christopher Meng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been packaging ZPAQ[1] for years, and recently when I decide to
> push it to Fedora I found its license had been changed from GPLv3 to
> Public Domain, I'm not sure if it's acceptable for Fedora, since the
> code "includes code from libdivsufsort 2.0 (C) Yuta Mori, 2003-2008,
> MIT license, public domain code for AES from libtomcrypt by Tom St
> Denis and public domain code for salsa20 by D. J. Bernstein."
> 
> Uh...Is it OK?

Yeah. Just be sure you list all the licenses in play in the spec,
probably something like:

License: Public Domain and MIT

~tom

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