The init script(s) provided in FILESDIR for dev-ruby/rubygems has a license of GPL-2 but GPL-2 isn't within the LICENSE variable of the ebuild(s): files/init.d-gem_server2 has license line: # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 ... and is used by the following ebuilds: rubygems-1.8.15.ebuild:LICENSE="|| ( Ruby MIT )" rubygems-1.8.24.ebuild:LICENSE="|| ( Ruby MIT )" 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 .
I've traced the origin of the script back to bug 186937 where it was contributed by Henning Schild with the GPL-2 headers already there. Henning, could you indicate if you would relicense this script to either the MIT or Ruby license so that we don't need to add another license to the rubygems ebuild?
Please relicense to MIT or Ruby, whichever you think fits best.
Is anything else required to close this ticket?
I could add a signed-off somewhere if that helps. But instead of licensing the init script like ruby, i would prefer to licence it like gentoo and add that licence to the ebuild. That must have been my intention when i said GPL v2, but i am not even sure that is the preferred licence for that kind of stuff.
I will send a github PR to fix that.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9206
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e40d17ea70fa5344add88d1397ea7ea58c4d9ec8 commit e40d17ea70fa5344add88d1397ea7ea58c4d9ec8 Author: Henning Schild <henning@hennsch.de> AuthorDate: 2018-07-15 16:31:15 +0000 Commit: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-07-15 18:21:54 +0000 dev-ruby/rubygems: add GPL-2 to the LICENSE to cover init script Bump versions to -r1 to force remerge. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/425936 Signed-off-by: Henning Schild <henning@hennsch.de> dev-ruby/rubygems/{rubygems-2.7.6.ebuild => rubygems-2.7.6-r1.ebuild} | 2 +- dev-ruby/rubygems/{rubygems-2.7.7.ebuild => rubygems-2.7.7-r1.ebuild} | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
