Bug 702480

Summary:	app-text/tkinfo-2.8-r1: LICENSE should be "Old-MIT GPL-1+"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Current packages	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 FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	702470

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2019-12-10 16:58:29 UTC

The ebuild currently says "freedist", but the README file says this:

   License?
   --------

   TkInfo is free. The TkInfo script itself is covered under a BSD-style
   license (start the program, type 'h' and go to "Copyright"). The man
   page and the pixmap were contributed by the Debian project and are
   covered by the GPL.

The "BSD-style" copyright in tkinfo is actually what we call Old-MIT.

tkinfo.1 says "GNU Public [sic!] License" without version, so (by section 9 of GPL-2 or section 14 of GPL-3) it can be distributed under any GPL version.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-12-11 14:59:51 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0674f02bb8388811fdfe09b23997b7c6635a0ff4

commit 0674f02bb8388811fdfe09b23997b7c6635a0ff4
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-12-11 14:57:03 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-12-11 14:59:37 +0000

    app-text/tkinfo: Fix LICENSE.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702480
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.81, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 app-text/tkinfo/tkinfo-2.8-r1.ebuild | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)