diff --git a/feedparser_utf8_decoding.patch b/feedparser_utf8_decoding.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..44111b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/feedparser_utf8_decoding.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/feedparser.py	2008-01-23 20:10:27.000000000 +0100
++++ feedparser.py	2008-07-28 11:01:38.000000000 +0200
+@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@
+         # thanks to Kevin Marks for this breathtaking hack to deal with (valid) high-bit attribute values in UTF-8 feeds
+         for key, value in attrs:
+             if type(value) != type(u''):
+-                value = unicode(value, self.encoding)
++                value = unicode(value, self.encoding, errors='replace')
+             uattrs.append((unicode(key, self.encoding), value))
+         strattrs = u''.join([u' %s="%s"' % (key, value) for key, value in uattrs]).encode(self.encoding)
+         if tag in self.elements_no_end_tag:
diff --git a/python-feedparser.spec b/python-feedparser.spec
index 2c83db9..190cd15 100644
--- a/python-feedparser.spec
+++ b/python-feedparser.spec
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@
 
 Name:           python-feedparser
 Version:        4.1
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?dist}
 Summary:        Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python
 
 Group:          Development/Languages
-License:        BSD-ish
+License:        BSD
 URL:            http://feedparser.org/
 Source0:        http://download.sourceforge.net/feedparser/feedparser-%{version}.zip
+Patch0:         feedparser_utf8_decoding.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ modules, including Dublin Core and Apple's iTunes extensions.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -c
+%patch0 -p0 -b .utf8_decoding
 find -type f -exec sed -i 's/\r//' {} ';'
 find -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} ';'
 
@@ -50,6 +52,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Dec 27 2008 Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon@fedoraproject.org> - 4.1-4
+- fix license tag
+- Patch for a utf8 decoding issue (#477024)
+
 * Thu Jun 28 2007 Konstantin Ryabitsev <icon@fedoraproject.org> - 4.1-3
 - Ghostbusting (#205413).
 - Remove manual python-abi Requires.