Bug 1294655 - udunits2 spec file defines wrong license
Summary: udunits2 spec file defines wrong license
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: udunits2
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-29 13:08 UTC by Justin
Modified: 2016-05-17 15:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-05-17 15:21:29 UTC
Type: Bug
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included COPYRIGHT (1.90 KB, text/plain)
2015-12-29 13:08 UTC, Justin
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Gentoo 570076 0 None None None 2015-12-29 13:08:09 UTC

Description Justin 2015-12-29 13:08:10 UTC
Created attachment 1110231 [details]
included COPYRIGHT

The spec file states MIT as license of the package, where as the included COPYRIGHT (see attachment) looks like an extended BSD license. The extension may be question the state as being a free license.

Gentoo's license team considers the license to be non free.

Please revise the License definition.

Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2016-02-02 20:19:29 UTC
Yep, thats BSD plus a patent suit termination clause. Running that up the legal chain.

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 14:11:25 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2016-05-17 14:57:23 UTC
Red Hat Legal reviewed the license and agreed that it was unique (not MIT), but disagreed with Gentoo. They feel that the license is Free and GPL compatible. We've labeled it as UCAR in our license list:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/UCAR

Comment 4 Tom "spot" Callaway 2016-05-17 15:21:29 UTC
License tag corrected in rawhide: udunits2-2.2.20-4.fc25


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