Bug 421155 – www-client/firefox-13.0 should use LICENSE="MPL-2.0"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2012-06-14 19:55:19 UTC]

www-client/firefox-13.0 (and maybe also some older versions) should use LICENSE="MPL-2.0". See about:license page.

Maybe LICENSE in newer versions of other Mozilla-related packages also should be fixed.

http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/index.txt

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2012-07-02 13:42:48 UTC]

Thanks for reporting, has been addressed in tree.

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2012-07-02 22:09:01 UTC]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/beb93f812874#l2.51 (lines 2.51 to 2.83) says that LICENSE should be "MPL-2.0", not "|| ( MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 )".

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2012-07-02 23:01:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/beb93f812874#l2.51 (lines 2.51 to
> 2.83) says that LICENSE should be "MPL-2.0", not "|| ( MPL-2.0 GPL-2
> LGPL-2.1 )".

This is incorrect, just due to the fact you are not understanding that many libs belong to other projects. No matter how you compile it in gentoo you are utilizing all three licenses not just the MPL-2.0 which does state further down about secondary licenses.

[Comment 4 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2012-07-03 11:16:08 UTC]

Then ebuilds should use LICENSE="MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1" instead of LICENSE="|| ( MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 )". The latter means that user can accept only one of these licenses to be able to install given package.

[Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt 2012-07-04 19:27:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Then ebuilds should use LICENSE="MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1" instead of
> LICENSE="|| ( MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 )". The latter means that user can
> accept only one of these licenses to be able to install given package.

You are correct, I have updated all source ebuilds where applicable.

[Comment 6 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2012-07-04 20:15:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Then ebuilds should use LICENSE="MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1" instead of
> > LICENSE="|| ( MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 )". The latter means that user can
> > accept only one of these licenses to be able to install given package.
> 
> You are correct, I have updated all source ebuilds where applicable.

All -bin ebuilds have also been updated.