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Bug 299893 - sys-apps/man-pages: LICENSE should be more precise
Summary: sys-apps/man-pages: LICENSE should be more precise
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2010-01-06 14:38 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2012-09-25 12:10 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2010-01-06 14:38:08 UTC
I'd like to have all packages in stage3 covered by some group in license_groups, see my message to gentoo-dev: <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_91b0e351e5213e91c04bf5e105e3ce8f.xml>

When looking into the individual files of man-pages I've found that "freedist" isn't really appropriate. Fortunately, Debian has already done the work of disentangling things: <http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_3.23-1/manpages.copyright>

Going through that list, I think that LICENSE="as-is GPL-2 BSD" would be appropriate for man-pages.
Comment 1 Vincent Launchbury 2010-01-07 17:23:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Going through that list, I think that LICENSE="as-is GPL-2 BSD" would be
> appropriate for man-pages.

That would be much more accurate, but what about getitimer and pciconfig_read? They're both listed as freedist. Would it be possible to filter out those 2 files, based on ACCEPT_LICENSE?

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2010-01-08 02:35:04 UTC
no, we're not doing that kind of crap

i dont personally care about the LICENSE variable.  feel free to tweak base-system/toolchain packages however you want Ulrich.
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2010-01-08 02:54:34 UTC
sorry, that might have implied more than i wanted ...

feel free to change the *value* of LICENSE="..." however you see best Ulrich
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2010-01-08 07:09:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> no, we're not doing that kind of crap

I agree.

> i dont personally care about the LICENSE variable.  feel free to tweak
> base-system/toolchain packages however you want Ulrich.

I've changed it to "as is GPL-2 BSD", as this agrees with the license information from upstream: <http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/licenses.html>

Vincent, if you think that getitimer.2 and pciconfig_read.2 are problematic, then please report this issue upstream. These two files don't hinder Debian to carry the package in "main", i.e. classify it as free.
Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-09-25 12:10:58 UTC
I've updated it again, to get rid of the vague "as-is" (see recent discussion in -dev ML). I've also changed GPL-2 to GPL-2+.

Assuming that the permission from comment #2 still holds.