[Bug 1199543] New: perl-DBI ships with a module released under Artistic (only) license

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199543

            Bug ID: 1199543
           Summary: perl-DBI ships with a module released under Artistic
                    (only) license
           Product: Red Hat Software Collections
           Version: rh-perl520
         Component: perl-DBI
          Severity: urgent
          Assignee: perl-maint-list at redhat.com
          Reporter: psabata at redhat.com
        QA Contact: qe-baseos-apps at redhat.com
                CC: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org, jplesnik at redhat.com,
                    mmaslano at redhat.com,
                    perl-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org, psabata at redhat.com



+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1199532 +++

DBI::FAQ (lib/DBI/FAQ.pm) contains the following copyright notice:

### This document is Copyright (c)1994-2000 Alligator Descartes, with portions
### Copyright (c)1994-2000 their original authors. This module is released
under
### the 'Artistic' license which you can find in the perl distribution.

This is not a FSF free license; please, remove the file from the distribution. 
The upstream tarball needs to be modified so this file isn't distributed with
our SRPMs either.

If possible, convince upstream to re-license this file under a FSF free
license.

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