[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] License of find-lang.sh is ambiguous around modification (#595)

[Jindrich Novy]

I'm fine with MIT as well.

Jindrich

On 11/9/18 4:35 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>
> Because I enjoy resolving 20 year old licensing issues... :)
>
> The existing license on find-lang.sh reads:
>
> |#findlang is copyright (c) 1998 by W. L. Estes <wlestes at uncg.edu> 
> #Redistribution and use of this software are hereby permitted for any 
> #purpose as long as this notice and the above copyright notice remain 
> #in tact and are included with any redistribution of this file or any 
> #work based on this file. |
>
> This license, like many early FOSS licenses, is ambiguous about its 
> support for modification. It also does not carry any sort of warranty 
> disclaimer. I have reached out to Mr. Estes, who has given permission 
> via email for this work to be relicensed under a modern permissive 
> license, specifically, MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). I 
> can provide copies of this correspondence upon request. He has 
> clarified that permitting modification of this file was his original 
> intent, however, it is still worth changing this license to prevent 
> others from copying it elsewhere.
>
> In the twenty years or so that this code has been in RPM, the 
> following contributors seem to have made copyrightable contributions 
> to it:
>
> @proyvind <https://github.com/proyvind> @pmatilai 
> <https://github.com/pmatilai> @scop <https://github.com/scop> @ffesti 
> <https://github.com/ffesti> @jnovy <https://github.com/jnovy> @arekm 
> <https://github.com/arekm>
>
> If each of them are okay with relicensing this work under MIT, I would 
> recommend that this happen. I can make a PR if needed.
>
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