[Fedora-packaging] Unclear license

[Lars Seipel]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 07:30:34AM +0100, Johan Swensson wrote:
> I'm looking into packaging a software that provides a LICENSE file
> which only contains this:
>
> "Everyone is permitted to do anything on this program including copying,
> modifying, and improving, unless you try to pretend that you wrote it.
> i.e., the above copyright notice has to appear in all copies.
> THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE."

Is this question about sl, the steam locomotive? At least the license
text is identical.

The package seems to be in Fedora (as 'sl') with a license tag of
"Copyright only". It is accompanied by some email from the upstream
author and a pointer to Debian's copyright file. In the package
review[1] it is stated that the licensing issues were resolved.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466997