Comment # 16 on bug 3805 from Andrea Musuruane

(In reply to Antonio Trande from comment #15)
> (In reply to Andrea Musuruane from comment #14)
> > (In reply to Antonio Trande from comment #13)
> > > - Include "BSD and Boost" licenses.
> > 
> > Please remember the license tag is not a list of licenses found in the
> > source archive but it refers to the licenses of the contents of the *binary
> > RPM*:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#License:_field
> > 
> > Moreover there is no BSD license in cannonball: "find . -name \* -type f
> > -exec grep "in source and binary forms" {} \;" does not return anything!
> 
> BSD (unspecified)
> -----------------
> cannonball-0.3/docs/license.txt
> ??
> 
> $ licensecheck -r * |grep BSL
> src/main/cannonboard/asyncserial.cpp: *No copyright* BSL (v1.0)
> src/main/cannonboard/asyncserial.hpp: *No copyright* BSL (v1.0)
> 
> 'asyncserial.cpp' is directly involved during build, this is a Mixed Source
> Licensing Scenario:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:
> LicensingGuidelines#Mixed_Source_Licensing_Scenario
> 
> > 
> > Therefore the resulting license of the binary RPM is the MAME license (i.e.
> > MAME + BOOST = MAME).
> 
> Where is this  reported this uniformity?
> However, there is no any reference to the 'MAME' license in the source
> archive; or am i wrong?

You shouldn't trust automatic software checking and you likely missed comment
#11: doc/license.txt is NOT a BSD license.

For example, doc/license.txt states that "Redistributions may not be sold, nor
may they be used in a commercial product or activity.". So this is definitely
NOT a BSD license.

You can find a reference in the git commit history:
"Added MAME derived license."
https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/commits/master/docs/license.txt

If you read the text of doc/license.txt it is exactly the MAME license (word by
word):
https://www.openhub.net/licenses/MAME%E2%84%A2_Distribution_License

About Mixed Source Licensing Scenario, please read the following thread:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/QTXWYMQVWVGDGBF2DFQBDGWJNMEO4HHV/#HAVBN2535DPVZ47ID2J5ON65FXOFWS63

The Boost license is an open source permissive license in the style of the BSD
license and the MIT license, but without requiring attribution for
redistribution in binary form. 

Hence you can mix it with another less permissive license (e.g. the MAME
license) and the result is the the less permissive license.