Bug 425878

Summary:	app-admin/sysklogd's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) <axs>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	QA
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	425702

Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-11 17:15:48 UTC

The init script(s) provided in FILESDIR for app-admin/sysklogd has a license of GPL-2 but GPL-2 isn't within the LICENSE variable of the ebuild(s):

files/sysklogd.rc6 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
sysklogd-1.4.2_pre20061230-r2.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
sysklogd-1.5.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
sysklogd-1.5-r1.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"

files/sysklogd.rc7 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
sysklogd-1.5-r2.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"

There are two options here -- either LICENSE in the ebuilds should be appended with GPL-2 to cover the init script, or the init script should be relicensed so that it is covered by current LICENSE (this one is probably the preferred resolution).  See also bug 425702 .