[Fedora-packaging] Unclear license

[Johan Swensson]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 21:07:53 +0100
Lars Seipel <lars.seipel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Yes it is sl, didn't find it in pkgdb at first but now I see it's
already packaged. Nevermind then. :)