426154 – sys-apps/xinetd's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script

Bug 426154 - sys-apps/xinetd's LICENSE variable does not reflect init script

Summary: sys-apps/xinetd'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

Importance:	Normal QA (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Blocks:	init-script-license
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Reported:	2012-07-11 17:26 UTC by Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED)
Modified:	2016-02-21 21:28 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-11 17:26:17 UTC

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

files/xinetd.rc6 has license line:
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
... and is used by the following ebuilds:
xinetd-2.3.14.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
xinetd-2.3.14-r1.ebuild:LICENSE="BSD"
xinetd-2.3.15.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 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-11-03 14:55:30 UTC

feel free to make any LICENSE related changes you want in base-system packages

Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-02-21 21:28:20 UTC

Thanks for the report. Fixed in http://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a2d6f1b0d8ef92c3bd7f6d59661c9ca1c4844c09