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Bug 923753 - sys-process/psmisc has incorrect LICENSE
Summary: sys-process/psmisc 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's Team for Core System packages
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Keywords:
: 913211 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2024-02-04 05:42 UTC by ganooslashlinus
Modified: 2024-03-07 19:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description ganooslashlinus 2024-02-04 05:42:14 UTC
All ebuilds: LICENSE="GPL-2"

fuser --version:
fuser (PSmisc) 23.6
Copyright (C) 1993-2022 Werner Almesberger and Craig Small

PSmisc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.

It's implied that any version of GPL is an option, but elsewhere it's noted that GPLv2-or-later is the license;

All files with license headers in `git clone https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc` list that the license is the GPLv2-or-later.

https://gitlab.com/psmisc/psmisc/-/blob/master/COPYING "This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later"


Should be: LICENSE="GPL-2+"
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2024-02-04 20:21:28 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=aeb2238aa598d8cf3adc4310a62f8e17c1d4e570

commit aeb2238aa598d8cf3adc4310a62f8e17c1d4e570
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-02-04 20:20:32 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-04 20:20:32 +0000

    sys-process/psmisc: update LICENSE
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/923753
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 sys-process/psmisc/psmisc-23.4-r1.ebuild | 2 +-
 sys-process/psmisc/psmisc-23.5.ebuild    | 2 +-
 sys-process/psmisc/psmisc-23.6.ebuild    | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2024-03-07 19:43:55 UTC
*** Bug 913211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***