Bug 426144 – sys-apps/irqbalance's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2012-07-11 17:25:54 UTC]

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

files/irqbalance.init has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
irqbalance-0.55-r2.ebuild:LICENSE="OSL-1.1"
irqbalance-0.55-r2.ebuild:LICENSE="OSL-1.1"

files/irqbalance.init-0.55-r2 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
irqbalance-0.55-r2.ebuild:LICENSE="OSL-1.1"

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 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2013-01-25 18:59:41 UTC]

I'd prefer to relicense the init script.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2013-04-27 10:08:34 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)

mmm, i don't think that'll work.  we use GPLv2 for all of our init scripts.

in other news, i still don't care about $LICENSE values in ebuilds.  if someone (literally: anyone) wants to change the value, then feel free.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2016-08-06 07:53:00 UTC]

license is already fixed