Bug 1974186

Summary: nkf's license is not any type of BSD license, unlike the spec description.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Haruki TSURUMOTO <firmbl>
Component: nkfAssignee: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Haruki TSURUMOTO 2021-06-21 05:58:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
nkf's license is not any type of BSD license, unlike the spec description.


How reproducible:
Check difference of src.fedoraproject.org 's spec and source code.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nkf/blob/rawhide/f/nkf.spec#_5

Spec file says it's BSD License.

On the other hands, copyright notice of nkf.c in the upstream tarball
is not any type of BSD license.

===============================================================================
     1	/*
     2	 * Copyright (c) 1987, Fujitsu LTD. (Itaru ICHIKAWA).
     3	 * Copyright (c) 1996-2013, The nkf Project.
     4	 *
     5	 * This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
     6	 * warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
     7	 * arising from the use of this software.
     8	 *
     9	 * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
    10	 * including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
    11	 * freely, subject to the following restrictions:
    12	 *
    13	 * 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
    14	 * claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
    15	 * in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
    16	 * appreciated but is not required.
    17	 *
    18	 * 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
    19	 * misrepresented as being the original software.
    20	 *
    21	 * 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
    22	 */

===============================================================================

I think this license is not listed in fedora's Software License List.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#SoftwareLicenses

Maybe difficult to describe in spec.

Additional info:
nkf is also packaging in other distribution.
For example, package is available for debian.
 
https://packages.debian.org/ja/sid/nkf

Copyright metadata says it's "Custom" license.

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/n/nkf/nkf_2.1.5-1_copyright
Comment 1 Mamoru TASAKA 2021-06-21 10:53:15 UTC 
This license is zlib.
Comment 2 Haruki TSURUMOTO 2021-06-26 02:26:50 UTC 
>This license is zlib.
Oh, I didn't notice this is same as zlib license.
To fix this issue, What can I approach to this?
Comment 3 Akira TAGOH 2021-07-01 11:51:39 UTC 
I'll update the spec file that way. thanks.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2021-07-08 12:29:11 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-a2a47ee870 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 35. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-a2a47ee870
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2021-07-08 12:31:19 UTC 
FEDORA-2021-a2a47ee870 has been pushed to the Fedora 35 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.