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Bug 1199537

Summary: perl-DBI ships with a module released under Artistic (only) license
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Petr Šabata <psabata>
Component: perl-DBIAssignee: perl-maint-list
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 5.11CC: extras-qa, jplesnik, mmaslano, perl-devel, ppisar, psabata, rfontana
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Clone Of: 1199532 Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-03-12 09:28:25 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Petr Šabata 2015-03-06 15:10:03 UTC 
+++ 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.
Comment 1 Petr Šabata 2015-03-12 09:28:25 UTC 
According to Richard, it's okay to ship this file with EL.  Closing.