Bug 1199543 - perl-DBI ships with a module released under Artistic (only) license
Summary: perl-DBI ships with a module released under Artistic (only) license
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Classification: Red Hat
Component: perl-DBI
Version: rh-perl520
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
: 2.0
Assignee: Jitka Plesnikova
QA Contact: Martin Kyral
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-06 15:14 UTC by Petr Šabata
Modified: 2015-06-04 09:34 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rh-perl520-perl-DBI-1.633-6.el6 rh-perl520-perl-DBI-1.633-6.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 1199532
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-06-04 09:34:30 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:


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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2015:1065 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE new packages: rh-perl520 2015-06-04 13:24:47 UTC

Description Petr Šabata 2015-03-06 15:14:15 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 3 Martin Kyral 2015-05-15 15:00:49 UTC
Bugfix verified. The problematic file has been dropped from the distribution:

# rpm -q rh-perl520-perl-DBI -l | grep FAQ
#

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2015-06-04 09:34:30 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-1065.html


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