Bug 175260 – sys-apps/util-linux: incomplete LICENSE?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2007-04-19 19:31:49 UTC]

The ebuild states GPL-2, but there are a few other licenses at play, included in the upcoming attachment

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2007-04-19 19:32:09 UTC]

Created attachment 116754 [details]
licenses

[Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2007-12-13 20:24:52 UTC]

So basically we need to reference the 4 clause BSD license as well as create a new Sun RPC license.

[Comment 3 Justin Bronder (RETIRED) 2009-03-24 15:41:00 UTC]

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/licenses/sun-rpc?rev=1.1&view=log

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2011-12-28 18:46:53 UTC]

Sun RPC has been relicensed to BSD some time ago: <http://blogs.oracle.com/webmink/entry/old_code_and_old_licenses>
There's no more reference to sun-rpc in the versions of util-linux that are in the tree (i.e. >=2.17).

According to README.licensing in the tarball, the following should be correct:
LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3 LGPL-2.1 BSD-4 public-domain"

I'm going to fix this in a few days (assuming that the permission given in bug 299893 comment #3 is still valid).

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2011-12-30 19:31:20 UTC]

Fixed.

(In reply to comment #4)
> According to README.licensing in the tarball, the following should be correct:
> LICENSE="GPL-2 GPL-3 LGPL-2.1 BSD-4 public-domain"

"MIT" was missing too.