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Bug 425862 - app-admin/conserver's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Summary: app-admin/conserver's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal QA (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Blocks: init-script-license
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Reported: 2012-07-11 17:15 UTC by Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED)
Modified: 2014-05-30 13:05 UTC (History)
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Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-07-11 17:15:08 UTC 
The init script(s) provided in FILESDIR for app-admin/conserver has a license of GPL-2 but GPL-2 isn't within the LICENSE variable of the ebuild(s):

files/conserver.initd has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
conserver-8.1.16.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
conserver-8.1.16-r1.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
conserver-8.1.18.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"

There are two options here -- either LICENSE in the ebuilds should be appended with GPL-2 to cover the init script, or the init script should be relicensed so that it is covered by current LICENSE (this one is probably the preferred resolution).  See also bug 425702 .
Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-05-30 13:05:32 UTC 
As I'm not the author of the init scripts, I'm not able to change the license of it. I've added the GPL-2 license to the LICENSE variable to resolve this (old) bug.