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Bug 880145 - games-board/xboard has incorrect LICENSE
Summary: games-board/xboard has incorrect LICENSE
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Other
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-11-07 08:21 UTC by ganooslashlinus
Modified: 2022-11-08 05:37 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description ganooslashlinus 2022-11-07 08:21:30 UTC
LICENSE="GPL-3"

COPYRIGHT:
...
The following terms apply to Digital Equipment Corporation's copyright
interest in XBoard:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
All Rights Reserved

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the name of Digital not be
used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
software without specific, written prior permission.

DIGITAL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING
ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL
DIGITAL BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR
ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS
SOFTWARE.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following terms apply to the enhanced version of XBoard distributed
by the Free Software Foundation:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
GNU XBoard is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

...

I can't find anything GPLv3-only either.


You can either do: LICENSE="GPL-3+" or LICENSE="xboard", with xboard being the COPYRIGHT file.
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-11-08 05:37:14 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d8f830c3dc6b62be34b15b44578f9c79211fae29

commit d8f830c3dc6b62be34b15b44578f9c79211fae29
Author:     Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-08 05:30:17 +0000
Commit:     Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-11-08 05:36:53 +0000

    games-board/xboard: fix license
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/880145
    Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen@gentoo.org>

 games-board/xboard/xboard-4.9.1.ebuild | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)