| Summary: | >=net-analyzer/nb-0.8.17 - new license is MIT only? | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Netmon project <netmon> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | licenses |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | LICENSE.txt | ||
It is dual licensed: "[...] you can modify and/or redistribute it under the terms of either the MIT License (Expat) or the NodeBrain License." We can choose to distribute the package under the MIT license. In addition, the "NodeBrain License" is very close to MIT, so I'd simply say LICENSE="MIT" and ignore the second part. The alternative would be LICENSE="|| ( MIT NodeBrain )", but I don't see what we would gain by adding another permissive license file that is practically equivalent to MIT. LICENSE=MIT is already in place. Maybe we can revive this bug if a user requests it (which I doubt). |
Created attachment 382918 [details] LICENSE.txt I'm not sure whether the new net-analyzer/nb license is simply MIT or whether the latter part constitutes an additional license that should be added as licenses/NodeBrain.