The original version of GLEW contains files under 4 licenses: BSD GPLv2+ SGI Free Software License B GLX Public License The last 2 licenses are not Free software licenses and thus not acceptable for Fedora. The version shipped by Fedora has the encumbered files removed and replaced by files from Mesa. These replacement files are licensed under the MIT license, which is BSD and GPL compatible. Also note that the GPL licensed files are scripts which generate parts of the C-code in GLEW, these scripts itself are only part of the GLEW sources shipped by Fedora, not of the binary rpm. Thus the binary package is licensed under the BSD license, and only under the BSD license. This is important for other packages which use the GLEW library.