Bug#951186: Please reconsider usage of perl-Array-IntSpan in licensecheck

Jonas Smedegaard jonas at jones.dk
Tue Feb 11 23:46:35 GMT 2020


Hi Sandro,

Quoting Sandro Mani (2020-02-12 00:24:50)
> The perl Array-IntSpan module is licensed Artistic v1 [1], but this 
> license is considered a non-free license [2] and not allowed in Fedora 
> [3].
> 
> As such, Fedora won't be able to ship newer versions of licensecheck 
> as long as there is a dependency on this module. Could it's use please 
> be reconsidered? Thanks.

Thank you very much for bringing this issue to my attention.

Yes, I will certainly try avoid that oddly-licensed library.

 - Jonas

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