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Bug 232561 - dev-util/bzr-1.5 bad license
Summary: dev-util/bzr-1.5 bad license
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial
Assignee: Ali Polatel (RETIRED)
URL: https://launchpad.net/bzr
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-07-21 12:52 UTC by Migol
Modified: 2008-08-22 09:50 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
Fixed ebuild (bzr-1.5.ebuild,2.89 KB, text/plain)
2008-07-21 12:53 UTC, Migol
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Description Migol 2008-07-21 12:52:48 UTC
As stated on main Bazaar site, it comes under dual-license: GPL v2 AND GPL v3 while ebuild states only GPL v2. Provided ebuild fixes the problem (no release change needed I think).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Migol 2008-07-21 12:53:21 UTC
Created attachment 160999 [details]
Fixed ebuild

Fixed ebuild
Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2008-07-21 13:56:13 UTC
Hi, please provide diff'd ebuilds next time. The '||' operator is a prefix operator in ebuilds as opposed to what you would expect in bash.

LICENSE="|| (GPL-2 GPL3)"
Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-22 09:50:31 UTC
But there is no information inside sources about GPL-3 license. They are GPL-2 only as I see. The only paragraph about GPL-3 I found was (in doc/developers/HACKING.txt):

Copyright
---------

The copyright policy for bzr was recently made clear in this email (edited
for grammatical correctness)::

    The attached patch cleans up the copyright and license statements in
    the bzr source. It also adds tests to help us remember to add them
    with the correct text.

    We had the problem that lots of our files were "Copyright Canonical
    Development Ltd" which is not a real company, and some other variations
    on this theme. Also, some files were missing the GPL statements.

    I want to be clear about the intent of this patch, since copyright can
    be a little controversial.

    1) The big motivation for this is not to shut out the community, but
    just to clean up all of the invalid copyright statements.

    2) It has been the general policy for bzr that we want a single
    copyright holder for all of the core code. This is following the model
    set by the FSF, which makes it easier to update the code to a new
    license in case problems are encountered. (For example, if we want to
    upgrade the project universally to GPL v3 it is much simpler if there is
    a single copyright holder). It also makes it clearer if copyright is
    ever debated, there is a single holder, which makes it easier to defend
    in court, etc. (I think the FSF position is that if you assign them
    copyright, they can defend it in court rather than you needing to, and
    I'm sure Canonical would do the same).
    As such, Canonical has requested copyright assignments from all of the
    major contributers.


So they just mention possibility to move to GPL-3, but they are still GPL-2. If you have any further information feel free to reopen.