Bug 426174

Summary:	sys-process/vixie-cron's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) <axs>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	QA	CC:	cron-bugs+disabled, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	425702
Deadline:	2019-10-11

Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-11 17:31:09 UTC

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

files/vixie-cron.rc6 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
vixie-cron-4.1-r10.ebuild:LICENSE="ISC BSD-2 BSD"

files/vixie-cron.rc7 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
vixie-cron-4.1-r12.ebuild:LICENSE="ISC BSD-2 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

2015-08-10 07:15:27 UTC

feel free to make any change to LICENSE in cron packages

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2019-10-11 15:07:55 UTC

Package removed.