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Bug 795591

Summary: x11-misc/fbpanel: unclear license
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Jonas Stein <jstein>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Licenses team <licenses>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: bog, ionen, jstein
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2021-06-12 11:55:53 UTC
This is no GPL, but perhaps a modified MIT license

https://github.com/aanatoly/fbpanel/issues/65
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2021-06-12 12:33:21 UTC
That's plain vanilla MIT, except that it says "AUTHORS" instead of "AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS" in the warranty disclaimer, which is a negligible difference.
Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev 2021-06-12 17:51:53 UTC
I think this should just be changed to "MIT LGPL-2+ GPL-2+", this assumes headerless files are using MIT anyway.

On a side-note, despite dead upstream, this software still works and I know a few people using it. Will have to go whenever gtk2 becomes a real problem though.
Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2024-04-21 08:27:10 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3e29e0df686c3cb43b6e684e5274abd536fdb6fe

commit 3e29e0df686c3cb43b6e684e5274abd536fdb6fe
Author:     Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-04-21 08:16:58 +0000
Commit:     Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-04-21 08:26:53 +0000

    x11-misc/fbpanel: enable py3.12
    
    Enable Python 3.12.  Only used at build, still works.
    Update license.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/795591
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/929884
    Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>

 x11-misc/fbpanel/fbpanel-7.0-r4.ebuild | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+)