883761 – net-dns/maradns: Please use MaraDNS BSD license for OpenRC startup files

Bug 883761 - net-dns/maradns: Please use MaraDNS BSD license for OpenRC startup files

Summary: net-dns/maradns: Please use MaraDNS BSD license for OpenRC startup files

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Reported:	2022-11-30 15:15 UTC by Sam Trenholme
Modified:	2022-12-04 02:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Sam Trenholme 2022-11-30 15:15:41 UTC

Issue: The files at gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-dns/maradns/files/maradns2 gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-dns/maradns/files/zoneserver2 and gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-dns/maradns/files/deadwood are released under a GPL license.

Since MaraDNS is BSD licensed and not GPL, these files can not be used upstream.

Please make these files BSD licensed instead of GPL licensed so that they can become part of the upstream version of MaraDNS.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2022-12-04 02:21:47 UTC

Several authors have modified the init script(s) over the years. To relicense the files, you would need to track down each author and obtain their consent.