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Bug 614142 - app-misc/lirc: Potentially wrong LICENSE information
Summary: app-misc/lirc: Potentially wrong LICENSE information
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Craig Andrews
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Keywords: PATCH
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Reported: 2017-03-28 11:49 UTC by Mart Raudsepp
Modified: 2017-03-28 22:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2017-03-28 11:49:38 UTC 
lirc seems to be GPL-2+, not GPL-2. As-is, an issue is pointed out from license metadata when combined with a GPL-3+ thing, suggesting the result is a license violation, while in reality if it's GPL-2+, then the result would simple become GPL-3+.
They can be used together in e.g media-sound/pulseaudio[lirc,gdbm] which would mean a license violation if lirc is truly gpl-2 only.
Comment 1 Craig Andrews gentoo-dev 2017-03-28 14:12:08 UTC 
You're correct - the license of LIRC is GPLv2+
Comment 2 Craig Andrews gentoo-dev 2017-03-28 14:15:52 UTC 
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/4315/
Comment 3 Göktürk Yüksek archtester gentoo-dev 2017-03-28 22:13:16 UTC 
commit 8e419c3f55ce8425a5f6b29168be91acb52a6c03
Author:     Craig Andrews <candrews@integralblue.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 28 10:13:33 2017 -0400
Commit:     Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 28 18:10:45 2017 -0400

    app-misc/lirc: Correctly set the license to GPLv2+ (was incorrectly set to GPLv2)
    
    Gentoo-bug: 614142