Bug 426122

Summary:	net-proxy/dante's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) <axs>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Network Proxy Developers (OBSOLETE) <net-proxy+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	QA	CC:	licenses
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 17:25:09 UTC

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

files/dante-sockd-init has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
dante-1.1.19-r4.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
dante-1.3.2.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 .

Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-04 12:38:36 UTC

Do I have the right to relicense this, especially when I didn't write this?

Comment 2 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-04 15:23:10 UTC

Nope, youd need to get permission from the original author(s).  It'd probably be easier to add the GPL2 license to LICENSE=

Comment 3 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-09 18:09:40 UTC

+  09 Apr 2013; Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> +dante-1.3.2-r1.ebuild,
+  +dante-1.4.0_pre1-r1.ebuild, +files/dante-1.3.2-sockd-init,
+  dante-1.1.19-r4.ebuild, dante-1.3.2.ebuild, dante-1.4.0_pre1.ebuild:
+  Revision bump of 1.3.2 and 1.4.0_pre1 fix bug #380449 (duplicate bug #465092),
+  meanwhile also added GPL-2 to LICENSE of all versions to fix bug #426122.