Bug 170323

Summary:	Changing xiph license to BSD
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Steve Dibb (RETIRED) <beandog>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	amd64, media-video, sound
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-10 20:24:16 UTC

I've been contacted by upstream (Xiph) regarding the "Xiph BSD license", which is in reality just a cosmetic variation of the "BSD" license.

Here's my final email to upstream regarding the matter:

"Since the "Xiph BSD" license as we have it[1] is simply filling in the placeholders on the BSD license[2], I'm going to change all the ebuilds using "xiph" to "BSD", as was originally suggested.

We're not going to keep different BSD-variant licenses when the only thing that is different is the copyright owner.

If Xiph does have a derivative license that varies in more than cosmetics, then yes, we'll put that in the tree and change the licenses.

Steve

1. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/xiph?rev=1.1&view=markup

2. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/BSD?rev=1.4&view=markup"

Affected ebuilds that need to be converted from 'xiph' to 'BSD':

app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-10.2
media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha6-r1
media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha7
media-sound/positron-1.1

Comment 1 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-10 20:28:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Affected ebuilds that need to be converted from 'xiph' to 'BSD':
> 
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-10.2
> media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha6-r1
> media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha7
> media-sound/positron-1.1

Fixed in CVS