Bug 244166

Summary:	Berkeley DB's license specified incorrectly in RPM License field
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark Schreiber <mark7>
Component:	db4	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
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Description Mark Schreiber 2007-06-14 09:38:37 UTC

Description of problem:
The db4-4.5.20.5.fc7 RPM's license is specified as being "BSD-style". 
"BSD-style" licenses allow incorporation of a package into other proprietary
packages.  This does not reflect Berkeley DB's license.  Versions of Berkeley DB
prior to v2.0 are, according to Wikipedia, under a license that looks something
like the BSD license with some GPL additions.  Versions at and above 2.0 are
available under a commercial license (currently available from Oracle) or under
the Sleepycat Public License (
http://opensource.feratech.com/licenses/sleepycat.php ), which is rather like a
strict GPL -- any software package that so much as uses this package must also
provide source code.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):4.5.20.5.fc7


How reproducible:rpm -qi db4 and look at the License field


Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -qi db4
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Actual results:BSD-style


Expected results:"Sleepycat License"


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2007-06-18 10:39:15 UTC

The BSD-style license was suggested by Red Hat legal department and therefore I
won't change it since I'm not a lawier.