Bug 398563

Summary:	app-text/jadetex license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	TeX project <tex>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/j/jadetex/jadetex_3.13-12/jadetex.copyright
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrius Štikonas 2012-01-11 18:02:35 UTC

app-text/jadetex ebuild states that the license is freedist.
jadetex.dtx file contains the standard BSD license. While it is a bad idea not to have a separate COPYING file, we can probably assume that the whole jadetex is licensed under BSD.

That is what Debian does (see http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/j/jadetex/jadetex_3.13-12/jadetex.copyright)

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-01-12 20:47:05 UTC

[Please don't CC developers directly. Let the bug wranglers do their job.]

(In reply to comment #0)
> app-text/jadetex ebuild states that the license is freedist.
> jadetex.dtx file contains the standard BSD license.

It's not BSD but the MIT license (aka X11 or Expat). Doesn't make much of a difference though.

> While it is a bad idea not to have a separate COPYING file, we can probably
> assume that the whole jadetex is licensed under BSD.

LICENSE="MIT" for the whole package would be fine IMHO.

Comment 2 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2012-03-30 12:49:24 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> > While it is a bad idea not to have a separate COPYING file, we can probably
> > assume that the whole jadetex is licensed under BSD.
> 
> LICENSE="MIT" for the whole package would be fine IMHO.

fixed, thanks