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Bug 84923

Summary: media-plugins/modplugxmms - wrong license
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Robert Schuster <theBohemian>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Robert Schuster 2005-03-11 18:32:24 UTC
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/modplug-xmms/modplugxmms/COPYING?rev=1.1.1.1&view=auto
says it for modplugxmms: "ModPlug-XMMS and libmodplug are now in the public domain."
Comment 1 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-13 06:59:13 UTC
Sorry, but GPL-2 does not allow retro-actively changing the license of existing releases, even if that new license is less restrictive. What you're showing here is a CVS commit, meaning that the next release from upstream will be under a new license.
When that time comes, we'll update LICENSE in that new ebuild only, not in the old ones. Closing this bug, it is invalid. Thanks for reporting, though.