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Bug 700938 - dev-libs/libevdev: wrong license
Summary: dev-libs/libevdev: wrong license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
URL: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevd...
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Reported: 2019-11-22 15:59 UTC by Rolf Eike Beer
Modified: 2021-02-01 15:48 UTC (History)
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Description Rolf Eike Beer archtester 2019-11-22 15:59:54 UTC
The ebuild says "MIT", but when you compare that license to the COPYING file in the tarball you see that is it clearly not MIT, although the restrictions are very similar.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2019-11-23 02:20:31 UTC
Agreed. It looks like it's actually this license (https://spdx.org/licenses/HPND-sell-variant.html) which seems very unexpected.
Comment 2 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2021-01-25 17:59:10 UTC
This is now resolved upstream. Not really anything for me to do in Gentoo, so resolving.
Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2021-02-01 15:48:05 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e6f348a0ad139f2734c13c9b51ea9a666ea03840

commit e6f348a0ad139f2734c13c9b51ea9a666ea03840
Author:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-02-01 15:46:49 +0000
Commit:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-02-01 15:47:58 +0000

    dev-libs/libevdev: Version bump to 1.11.0
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/700938
    Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>

 dev-libs/libevdev/Manifest               |  1 +
 dev-libs/libevdev/libevdev-1.11.0.ebuild | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+)