[Bug 172755] Review Request: xcompmgr - X11 composite manager

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Summary: Review Request: xcompmgr -  X11 composite manager


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172755





------- Additional Comments From wart at kobold.org  2006-02-16 00:14 EST -------
(In reply to comment #11)
> ok, I did some searching around. It appears the license is really a SGI/STL
> license ( something like: http://www.mcda.org/help/stl.html ).
> 
> From what I could gather this is a very close variant of the MIT license, 
> so it should be ok to ship. 
> 
> Note that rpmlint only has "MIT" as a valid license, not MIT/X11. 
> 
> I would say change the License to just MIT and then it's APPROVED. 

I disagree.  IMHO, I don't think we should be changing license tags just to
silence rpmlint warnings.  If rpmlint warns about it then make a note of it in
the spec file, file a bug with rpmlint, and live with the warning.

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