Bug 395257 – www-apache/mod_fastcgi wrong LICENSE

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2011-12-19 10:50:36 UTC]

The ebuilds currently have LICENSE="FastCGI". However, that's a different license from the one in LICENSE_TERMS included in the tarball. Especially, the second paragraph is much more restrictive:

licenses/FastCGI:
... to use, copy, modify, distribute, and license this Software and the Documentation for any purpose ...

LICENSE_TERMS:
... to use, copy, modify, distribute, and license this Software and the Documentation solely for the purpose of implementing the FastCGI specification defined by Open Market or derivative specifications publicly endorsed by Open Market and promulgated by an open standards organization and for no other purpose ...

In fact, the correct license file mod_fastcgi already exists in the CVS attic: <http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/licenses/mod_fastcgi?hideattic=0&view=log>

[Comment 1 Hanno Böck 2011-12-19 11:12:05 UTC]

Uhm, that would make it non-free, right? But I just see, debian lists it as non-free, too.

(however, it seems most people switched to mod_fcgid anyway)

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2011-12-19 11:19:01 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Uhm, that would make it non-free, right? But I just see, debian lists it as
> non-free, too.

Right. Debian has discussed it here: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2000/07/msg00076.html>.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2012-01-02 18:39:15 UTC]

Any objections if I fix this myself?

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2012-01-02 20:59:15 UTC]

ulm: I think just do it.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2012-01-02 21:31:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> ulm: I think just do it.

Committed to CVS.

WDYT, can mod_fastcgi be added to the @BINARY_REDISTRIBUTABLE license group?

[Comment 6 Jesus Rivero (RETIRED) 2013-07-10 02:44:00 UTC]

This one was fixed. Closing.