788412 – app-text/wgetpaste LICENSE mismatch

Bug 788412 - app-text/wgetpaste LICENSE mismatch

Summary: app-text/wgetpaste LICENSE mismatch

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2021-05-05 18:33 UTC by Oskari Pirhonen
Modified:	2021-05-15 13:29 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Oskari Pirhonen 2021-05-05 18:33:09 UTC

The current ebuilds for app-text/wgetpaste list the license as "public-domain" even though the GitHub repo lists the license as MIT.

https://github.com/zlin/wgetpaste/blob/8bac25377cf2c447c439c04837ea178d6a0f845c/LICENSE
https://github.com/zlin/wgetpaste/blob/8bac25377cf2c447c439c04837ea178d6a0f845c/wgetpaste.spec

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2021-05-05 23:54:34 UTC

Confirmed the license changed, it was public-domain in the past.

https://github.com/zlin/wgetpaste/commit/f1275dc181831760064e16b887817198f79f58e7#diff-c805cd22ac7f99e5422a2298bde98993e59eb36dd39cb37fe8933e899eb7e739L5

REUSE could help in such cases: https://reuse.software/