[Fedora-legal-list] Status report

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:27 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I think there are still some package listed here that needn't be.  Is
> "GPLv2+ or Artistic" valid?  I believe you said it was and would add
> it to the wiki, but it is not there and thus still not in the rpmlint
> config (which I'm using as the source for valid licenses, updated to
> match wiki rev 91).

Darn. OK. I've definitely committed that change to the wiki now.

> The packages affected are:
> 
> perl
> perl-Jcode
> perl-Unicode-Map
> perl-Unicode-Map8
> perl-Unicode-MapUTF8
> perl-Unicode-String
> procmail
> 
> GPLv2+ or Artistic is valid for perl and procmail AFAIK, but it is
> likely a copy/paste error for the others I believe.

I checked, and it was an error for the others, and they have been
corrected now.

> The list of packages with License tags matching "^Artistic$" is
> attached.

OK, I went through that list:

cpan2rpm (ghenry): "Artistic" (incorrect license)
cracklib (nalin): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
d4x (thias): "Artistic" (emailed maintainer, as he had a note in the
changelog on an impending license change)
perl-Apache-Session (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream, upstream
agrees to GPL+ or Artistic)
perl-Authen-Radius (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Class-Data-Accessor (cweyl): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Class-Gomor (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Class-Singleton (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Crypt-CBC (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-DBIx-POS (cweyl): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-DBIx-SQLite-Simple (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Font-TTF (nim): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-GD (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream, upstream says relicensing
as GPL+ Artistic 2.0)
perl-IO-Multiplex (lmb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Image-Size (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-LockFile-Simple (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream, upstream says
GPL+ or Artistic ok)
perl-Net-Netmask (wtogami): "Artistic" (incorrect license tag, should be
Copyright only, corrected)
perl-Net-Packet (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Net-SNPP (jcollie): "Artistic" (wrong license tag, should be GPL+
or Artistic, emailed maintainer)
perl-Net-Write (sindrepb): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-NetAddr-IP (ixs): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Parse-RecDescent (rnorwood): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Razor-Agent (robert): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Regexp-Common (corsepiu): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-SNMP_Session (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-SVG-Graph (alexlan): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Text-Autoformat (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Text-Reform (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Tie-EncryptedHash (pghmcfc): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-Unix-Syslog (steve): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-XML-Grove (rnorwood): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
perl-pmtools (jpo): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
pgadmin3 (ghenry): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
pv (jhrozek): "Artistic (modified) (incorrect license tag, should be
Artistic 2.0, emailed maintainer)
qstat (andriy): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
rman (jamatos): "Artistic" (emailed upstream)
tetex-IEEEtran (rvinyard): "Artistic" (is LPPL now)
z88dk (pfj): "Artistic" (actually Artistic Clarified, corrected)

~spot