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Bug 880177 - app-office/dia has incorrect LICENSE
Summary: app-office/dia has incorrect LICENSE
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Other
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2022-11-07 09:04 UTC by ganooslashlinus
Modified: 2022-11-11 20:17 UTC (History)
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Description ganooslashlinus 2022-11-07 09:04:56 UTC
LICENSE="GPL-2"

Under Help > About > License:
This program 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 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.


The gnome website implies GPLv2-only, but it appears that it just omits or-later: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia/Faq#Under_what_license_is_Dia_released.3F 

I can't find anything GPLv2-only with grep.


Should be: LICENSE="GPL-2+"
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-11-11 20:17:49 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=545544ae9c8bd72de6bdcf273e24c10782bb72db

commit 545544ae9c8bd72de6bdcf273e24c10782bb72db
Author:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-11 20:17:30 +0000
Commit:     Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-11-11 20:17:30 +0000

    app-office/dia: Fix license to be GPL-2+
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/880177
    Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>

 app-office/dia/dia-0.97.3-r1.ebuild | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)