Re: [Cooker] Mandriva RPM states Zsh license is GPL

[Adam Williamson <awilliamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 21:10 +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > While updating Mandriva RPM for 4.3.5 it caught my attention that SPEC states 
> > License: GPL. Now, that is wrong as far as I can tell; Zsh is not under GPL 
> > license and it IIRC several times it was mentioned on zsh-workers that Zsh won't 
> > be put under GPL (I may be wrong here).
> > 
> > This poses several questions.
> > 
> > If we need License tag in RPM - how should it be called? Zsh comes with LICENSE 
> > file but that is not anything from "commonly used" license.
> > 
> > Possibly more question to zsh-workers - should I remove License: GPL from 
> > Mandriva RPM?
> > 
> > To cooker - if we cannot put any "common" open source license tag in zsh RPM - 
> > is it allowed to be distributed via main repository?
> 
> See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Licensing for the license policy.
> 
> AFAICS in this case the "correct" license tag is:
> License: BSD-like

Yes, that would be correct.
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adamw
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