Bug 425920

Summary:	dev-db/hsqldb's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) <axs>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	QA
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	425702

Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-11 17:17:20 UTC

The init script(s) provided in FILESDIR for dev-db/hsqldb has a license of GPL-2 but GPL-2 isn't within the LICENSE variable of the ebuild(s):

files/hsqldb has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
hsqldb-1.8.1.2-r1.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
hsqldb-1.8.1.3.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"

There are two options here -- either LICENSE in the ebuilds should be appended with GPL-2 to cover the init script, or the init script should be relicensed so that it is covered by current LICENSE (this one is probably the preferred resolution).  See also bug 425702 .

Comment 1 Ralph Sennhauser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-13 14:21:16 UTC

Fixed in cvs. Thanks for the report.

  13 Jul 2012; Ralph Sennhauser <sera@gentoo.org> hsqldb-1.8.1.2-r1.ebuild,
  hsqldb-1.8.1.3.ebuild:
  Add GPL-2 to licenses to cover the Gentoo initscript. #425920