426116 – net-p2p/bittorrent's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script

Bug 426116 - net-p2p/bittorrent's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script

Summary: net-p2p/bittorrent's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal QA (vote)
Assignee:	Ryan Hill (RETIRED)

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Blocks:	init-script-license
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Reported:	2012-07-11 17:24 UTC by Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED)
Modified:	2015-12-31 12:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-11 17:24:56 UTC

The init script(s) provided in FILESDIR for net-p2p/bittorrent has a license of GPL-2 but GPL-2 isn't within the LICENSE variable of the ebuild(s):

files/bittorrent-tracker.initd has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
bittorrent-4.4.0-r1.ebuild:LICENSE="BitTorrent"
bittorrent-4.4.0-r2.ebuild:LICENSE="BitTorrent"

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 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-12-31 12:07:41 UTC

removed from the tree