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Bug 861185

Summary: sys-devel/bison wrong license
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: ganooslashlinus
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Other   
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Description ganooslashlinus 2022-07-26 08:03:01 UTC
The sys-devel/bison-3.7.6 & sys-devel/bison-3.8.2 ebuilds have License: GPL-2 
Those versions of bc are licensed under the GPL-3+: https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/#Licensing
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-07-28 06:40:17 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3b32672bbba5816d31ab02eb1d91cb603d2d3030

commit 3b32672bbba5816d31ab02eb1d91cb603d2d3030
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-07-28 06:36:00 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-07-28 06:36:00 +0000

    sys-devel/bison: fix LICENSE
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/861185
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 sys-devel/bison/bison-3.7.6.ebuild | 4 ++--
 sys-devel/bison/bison-3.8.2.ebuild | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)