Bug 912052

Summary:	net-misc/zerotier: LICENSE has incorrect 'Change Date' for Business Source Licence
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sam James <sam>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Alfred Wingate <parona>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	flow, licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912053
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Description Sam James archtester

2023-08-11 02:47:16 UTC

licenses/BSL-1.1 currently seems to be https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/dev/LICENSE.txt verbatim.

The copy in licenses/BSL-1.1 added in e654dd06963a356f31fb80817b3854b139882532 (August 2019) has:
>Change Date:          2023-01-01

The latest version of zerotier in tree, however, is far newer than this, which makes the Change Date inaccurate.

This also brings questions to my mind about how to handle BSL in general, given the Change Date and Change License for it always matters and isn't just boilerplate.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2023-08-11 12:13:22 UTC

The change date isn't part of the license, so it doesn't belong in the license file.

Maybe best to record it as a comment near the LICENSE variable in the ebuild?