Bug 101299 – Lighttpd ebuild contains "COPYING" file (GPL) which is not in the source distribution.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description oninoshiko 2005-08-04 01:11:08 UTC]

Lighttpd ebuild contains "COPYING" file (GPL) which is not in the source 
distribution. Lighttpd is under the BSD license (indeed, portage reports it as 
being under the BSD license).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.




Execerpt from disscussion with Jan (weigon) on #lighttpd on freenode (some 
irrelevent content removed)

<oninoshiko> *  www-servers/lighttpd
<oninoshiko>       Latest version available: 1.3.15
<oninoshiko>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
<oninoshiko>       Size of downloaded files: 685 kB
<oninoshiko>       Homepage:    http://www.lighttpd.net/
<oninoshiko>       Description: lightweight high-performance web server
<oninoshiko>       License:     BSD
<oninoshiko> so says portage
<svijaykr> the debian/copyright file has it too.. shouldn't  it be there in in 
the main directory ? 
<oninoshiko> ok, now im confused, there is a "COPYING" file on my system (/usr/
share/doc/lighttpd-1.3.14/COPYING.gz) which is the GPL
<weigon> svijaykr: /COPYING
<weigon> it is BSD on mine and in SVN 
<weigon> oninoshiko: this happens on gentoo ?
<svijaykr> oninoshiko: it should be the BSD licence
<weigon> oninoshiko: can you check were this COPYING.gz is coming from ? it is 
not shiped from the orig. sources

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-08-04 01:54:43 UTC]

Read the file.

[Comment 2 oninoshiko 2005-08-04 02:04:15 UTC]

Created attachment 65056 [details]
/usr/share/doc/lighttpd-1.3.14/COPYING.gz as was on my server

/usr/share/doc/lighttpd-1.3.14/COPYING.gz as was on my server
definitly the GPL and not a BSD license.

[Comment 3 oninoshiko 2005-08-04 02:05:20 UTC]

read the bug

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-08-04 02:29:22 UTC]

Hmm, I have no clue where that file does come from. I tried with 1.3.15 (1.3.14
is no longer in portage) and also get the GPL-2 license. Sorry about this. 

Also, the ebuild created lighttpd user and group on my system despite the fact
that I emerged it with -B, pkg_setup() is not the best place to create new
users, this should be moved to src_install() :-(

[Comment 5 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2005-08-18 09:54:54 UTC]

The problem was the -i flag being passed to autoreconf in src_compile() which
was causing the COPYING file to be overwritten with a GPL one...