Bug 1567826 - Wrong License: tag for marisa
Summary: Wrong License: tag for marisa
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: marisa
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Daiki Ueno
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-16 09:20 UTC by Artur Frenszek-Iwicki
Modified: 2018-07-19 08:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: marisa-0.2.4-28.fc28
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Last Closed: 2018-07-19 08:07:24 UTC
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Description Artur Frenszek-Iwicki 2018-04-16 09:20:54 UTC 
The License: tag for marisa is "BSD or LGPL".

This contradicts the Licensing Guidelines, which say that un-versioned GPL/LGPL identifiers should not be used.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#GPL_and_LGPL

I took a look at the marisa tarball; COPYING says "The LGPL 2.1 or any later version", which means the tag should be "BSD or LGPLv2+".
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses
Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2018-07-19 08:01:43 UTC 
COPYING is not the right place to check: LGPLv2+ is stated in the README file.
Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2018-07-19 08:04:25 UTC 
In general I mean COPYING is just a copy of the general license file. 
But okay, sorry, in this case COPYING does actually look clearer.
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