84923 – media-plugins/modplugxmms - wrong license

Bug 84923 - media-plugins/modplugxmms - wrong license

Summary: media-plugins/modplugxmms - wrong license

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team

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Reported:	2005-03-11 18:32 UTC by Robert Schuster
Modified:	2005-03-13 06:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Robert Schuster 2005-03-11 18:32:24 UTC

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/modplug-xmms/modplugxmms/COPYING?rev=1.1.1.1&view=auto
says it for modplugxmms: "ModPlug-XMMS and libmodplug are now in the public domain."

Comment 1 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-13 06:59:13 UTC

Sorry, but GPL-2 does not allow retro-actively changing the license of existing releases, even if that new license is less restrictive. What you're showing here is a CVS commit, meaning that the next release from upstream will be under a new license.
When that time comes, we'll update LICENSE in that new ebuild only, not in the old ones. Closing this bug, it is invalid. Thanks for reporting, though.