263551 – sys-apps/file: wrong LICENSE?

Bug 263551 - sys-apps/file: wrong LICENSE?

Summary: sys-apps/file: 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:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Blocks:	as-is-license
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Reported:	2009-03-23 21:47 UTC by Justin Bronder (RETIRED)
Modified:	2012-11-05 14:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Justin Bronder (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-23 21:47:14 UTC

On inspection, the licence provided in the source (LEAGAL.NOTICE) looks nearly the same as BSD-2.  At least, BSD-2 is probably a better description then the 'as-is' catchall.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-04 10:54:59 UTC

indeed, the COPYING is what we call BSD-2 and every other distribution also refers to it as BSD ...

+  04 Aug 2011; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> file-5.08.ebuild:
+  Change license from as-is to BSD-2 per COPYING wrt #263551 by Justin Bronder