Bug 567362

Summary:	net-libs/libtirpc LICENSE is wrong
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard Yao <ryao>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	REGRESSION
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard Yao gentoo-dev

2015-12-02 19:11:12 UTC

The license on net-libs/libtirpc is set to GPL-2, which appears to be wrong. It was never GPL-2 and upstream switched to BSD when making it GPL-compatible. Upstream claims it is BSD:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtirpc/
http://git.infradead.org/users/steved/libtirpc.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=license

It was supposed to be fixed 6 years ago for bug #271921, but it does not appear to be fixed as the ebuild reports it is GPL-2:

# equery m libtirpc
 * net-libs/libtirpc [gentoo]
Herd:        net-fs (net-fs@gentoo.org)
Maintainer:  None specified
Upstream:    Remote-ID:   libtirpc ID: sourceforge
Homepage:    http://libtirpc.sourceforge.net/
Location:    /usr/portage/net-libs/libtirpc
Keywords:    0.1.10:0: 
Keywords:    0.2.4-r1:0: 
Keywords:    0.2.4-r2:0: 
Keywords:    0.2.5:0: alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86
Keywords:    0.3.1:0: ~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86
Keywords:    1.0.1:0/3: ~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86
License:     GPL-2

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-12-02 21:44:56 UTC

i do not care about LICENSE fields.  feel free to change the field in any ebuild as long as you include the justification in your commit message.

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2015-12-03 09:51:25 UTC

Checking the source files' headers, I see all of the following licenses there:
BSD BSD-2 BSD-4 GPL-2+