Firmware packages with a mislabelled license?

Yaakov Nemoy loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Tue Jul 22 12:55:39 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Sourceforge labels it as:
>>
>> License : BSD License, GNU General Public License (GPL),
>> Other/Proprietary License
>
> And that's essentially correct. As I said in the other thread, the correct
> license tag for Fedora is:
> License: (MIT or GPLv2+) and Redistributable, no modification permitted
>
> The firmware loader is dual MIT/GPLv2+, the actual firmware is only
> redistributable. The package contains both.

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/midisport-firmware/midisport-firmware.spec?view=markup

Then this is a clear bug.  I'll fire up bugzilla.

-Yaakov Nemoy




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