Bug 446590

Summary:	net-nds/portmap: LICENSE should be "BSD GPL-2"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses, net-fs
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	QAcanfix
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426102
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	436214

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-09 12:30:43 UTC

This is a somewhat tricky one, license wise.
The portmap code itself is under a BSD (3-clause) license.

However, there is also from_local.c which was taken from SunRPC and was under a
non-free license. SunRPC has been relicensed in 2009 though:

   On Saturday I was able to tell Europe's Free Software developers that the
   licenses on the RPC code are no longer a barrier to Free software - we'll
   change the license to Sun's copyrights in the RPC code to a standard
   3-clause BSD license, allowing inheritance of that licensing by both Debian
   and Fedora. I'm delighted to have been able to fix this problem, which
   arose not because of failure but because of the success of software freedom
   over many years and becuase of Sun's early commitment to it.
<http://web.archive.org/web/20090328132957/http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/old_code_and_old_licenses>

See also Debian's long discussion here: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=181493>


In addition, the init script is under GPL-2 (see bug 426102).

So in summary, LICENSE in ebuilds should be changed to "BSD GPL-2".

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-09 12:34:09 UTC

Fixed.