| Summary: | X11 license gpl compatible but not in profiles/license_groups | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ben Sagal <bensagal> |
| Component: | Eclasses | Assignee: | Licenses team <licenses> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | minor | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Ben Sagal
2010-04-11 09:05:11 UTC
> The X11 license is listed
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License as gpl compatible
> but is not listed at all in profiles/license_groups
That GNU page also says: "This license is sometimes called the MIT license, but that term is misleading, since MIT has used many licenses for software." In spite of this, we list the MIT/X11/Expat license as "MIT" and of course it is in the @GPL-COMPATIBLE group.
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