On 03/10/2015 05:18 PM, Petr Šabata wrote: > (...) > > You can see the whole file here: > https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.20.1/regexec.c > > I looked but couldn't find any common name for this license > of Henry's. Is it on our list? Is it free? What name should > I use in the License tag?
This old license implies a right to modify (clause 3) but doesn't clearly grant that right. Normally, I'd ask for us to try to reach out to the copyright holder (Henry Spencer) to clarify it, but he seems to have done so in 1992-1994: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/license-regex.html This version of his license clearly grants permission to "alter" and redistribute, but requires that "credits" appear in the documentation. With those changes, the license is clearly free. For Fedora, including this license text as %license should be sufficient to meet this requirement. In summary: 1) Please ask upstream perl to inherit the newer license for Henry Spencer's Reg-Ex library (the mysql one). 2) Please include a copy of this newer license text as a file in the perl package, marked as %license. 3) Adjust the license tag to include "HSRL". ~tom == Red Hat
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