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Bug 174440 - media-libs/ftgl: wrong LICENSE?
Summary: media-libs/ftgl: wrong LICENSE?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Reported: 2007-04-13 12:14 UTC by Daniel Drake (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-12-27 06:52 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-13 12:14:07 UTC 
the ebuild says that glew is GPL-2. However the tarball includes a different license in license.txt and also offers LGPL as an alternative in COPYING.txt
Comment 1 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-13 23:03:43 UTC 
The licensing is derived from http://glew.sourceforge.net/credits.html.  And the ebuild states that more licenses than GPL-2 cover the code.

I also don't see license.txt or COPYING.txt in the tarball...
Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-14 13:04:46 UTC 
Apologies, I got confused. The package in question is actually media-libs/ftgl. Is this something you take care of as well?
Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-14 16:29:05 UTC 
That looks like Games/Seemant's shtick.
Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-08-18 00:23:23 UTC 
So is LGPL acceptable or should we list both licenses?
Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-12-27 06:52:44 UTC 
it's lgpl-2 unless you want to work something out with the author.  It shouldn't have been gpl-2 though so I changed that in portage.