263502 – dev-libs/expat wrong LICENSE

Bug 263502 - dev-libs/expat wrong LICENSE

Summary: dev-libs/expat wrong LICENSE

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Freedesktop bugs

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Reported:	2009-03-23 15:35 UTC by Justin Bronder (RETIRED)
Modified:	2009-03-23 15:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Justin Bronder (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-23 15:35:11 UTC

The COPYING file distributed with expat is a verbose copy of the MIT license, the README (paragraph 3) confirms that this is intended.

http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/COPYING?revision=1.4&view=markup
http://expat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/expat/expat/README?view=markup

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-03-23 15:42:00 UTC

Justin, please assign your own bugs and help keep the b-w queue down ;)

Comment 2 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-23 15:43:35 UTC

+  23 Mar 2009; Peter Alfredsen <loki_val@gentoo.org> expat-2.0.1-r1.ebuild:
+  License is MIT per bug 263502, thanks to Justin Bronder
+  <jsbronder@gentoo.org> for report
+