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Bug 838265 - dev-util/dialog: incorrect license
Summary: dev-util/dialog: incorrect 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's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2022-04-13 23:22 UTC by Thomas Dickey
Modified: 2022-04-13 23:26 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Thomas Dickey 2022-04-13 23:22:03 UTC
I noticed that the license shown for the dialog ebuild is GPL-2.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-util/dialog

It's been LGPL since 2005:

https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html#history_myself

Also (what I was looking for when I noticed this),
I believe that switching the source to the main site
would be more reliable, e.g., change

SRC_URI="https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/dialog/${MY_P}.tgz"

to

SRC_URI="https://invisible-island.net/archives/dialog/${MY_P}.tgz"
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-04-13 23:22:37 UTC
Thanks for noticing. I'll make both changes shortly!
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-04-13 23:26:14 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2b4b9e85b7cb7c55e261eed3e8a26d1683312c54

commit 2b4b9e85b7cb7c55e261eed3e8a26d1683312c54
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-04-13 23:25:49 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-04-13 23:25:49 +0000

    dev-util/dialog: fix LICENSE
    
    It's been LGPL-2.1 for quite some time, as pointed out by upstream.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/838265
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20211107.ebuild | 2 +-
 dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20211214.ebuild | 2 +-
 dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20220117.ebuild | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=1448789e7c89ddbae5c9af3ee0872cdf42fc5e80

commit 1448789e7c89ddbae5c9af3ee0872cdf42fc5e80
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-04-13 23:23:27 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-04-13 23:23:27 +0000

    dev-util/dialog: update SRC_URI to official location
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/838265
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20211107.ebuild | 4 ++--
 dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20211214.ebuild | 2 +-
 dev-util/dialog/dialog-1.3.20220117.ebuild | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)