Bug 426154

Summary:	sys-apps/xinetd'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:	RESOLVED FIXED
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 17:26:17 UTC

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

files/xinetd.rc6 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
xinetd-2.3.14.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
xinetd-2.3.14-r1.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
xinetd-2.3.15.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 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-11-03 14:55:30 UTC

feel free to make any LICENSE related changes you want in base-system packages

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-02-21 21:28:20 UTC

Thanks for the report. Fixed in http://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a2d6f1b0d8ef92c3bd7f6d59661c9ca1c4844c09