Bug 299996

Summary:	>=sys-devel/gcc-4.2 LICENSE doesn't play well with ACCEPT_LICENSE
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-01-07 06:54:46 UTC

Licenses libgcc, libstdc++, and gcc-runtime-library-exception-3.1 are additional permissions to the GPL. So having GPL-3 (or a set like @GPL-COMPATIBLE) in ACCEPT_LICENSE should be sufficient to accept gcc.

I think the licenses should be joined by || rather than (implicit) &&:
   "|| ( GPL-3 libgcc libstdc++ ) LGPL-3"
(This is for gcc-4.3*, 4.4* is similar of course.)

Also, FDL-1.2 should be added for gcc's texinfo documentation.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-01-09 13:02:26 UTC

I've changed it to the following (for gcc-4.3.4, but others are similar):

LICENSE="GPL-3 LGPL-3 || ( GPL-3 libgcc libstdc++ ) FDL-1.2"

because exceptions don't apply to all installed files.
Of course, "GPL-3 || ( GPL-3 foo )" is logically equivalent to "GPL-3", but LICENSE is also informational.