From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.0.7-1.2.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: The package is distributed by Fedora Core 4 under the license "Distributable". When I look at the official ruby license (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt) it qualifies as a dual licensed software. The Packaging Guidelines (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines) say in the Licensing section: "Alternately, if code is dual licensed, and one of the licenses meets the open source license criteria, that code can be included in Fedora Extras under the open source license." Taking this into concern, and given that ruby is licensed under its own license and the GPL, the package should be licensed as GPL. Sorry, to be nit picking, but I found this out tonight and thought, that it might be good to follow the self-defined rules. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ruby-1.8.4-1.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. this is not a bug. 2. 3. Additional info:
It could be mentioned as Ruby License/GPL. but describing their own license was unclear to understand it. everyone isn't necessarily familiar with Ruby license. so it was sufficient to mention just "Distributable" and you can see the exact license from COPYING that ruby package contains. also Ruby license is compatible with the modified BSD license IIRC. so either license isn't a problem to ship in Fedora anyway. IMHO it's not a good idea to restrict the choice of license - even if it's just in the package information because people could misunderstand that our ruby package is only licensed under GPL.
This sounds very reasonable. May be this should be stated somewhere in an official place like http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-76294f12c6b481792eb001ba9763d95e2792e825 I am not sure if this is the right place, may be there exists some kind of Howto about things like that.
Fixed in 1.8.4-6. License tag is now: License: Ruby License/GPL - see COPYING like Python does: License: PSF - see LICENSE