444338 – app-admin/xtail: LICENSE should be "BSD"

Bug 444338 - app-admin/xtail: LICENSE should be "BSD"

Summary: app-admin/xtail: LICENSE should be "BSD"

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Proxy Maintainers

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Keywords:	QAcanfix

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Blocks:	as-is-license
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Reported:	2012-11-22 17:00 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2012-11-22 21:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-11-22 17:00:01 UTC

This is BSD licensed, thanks to Debian folks who have sorted it out here:
<http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/x/xtail/xtail_2.1-5/copyright>

   Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:09:37 -0500
   From: Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>
   To: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
   Subject: Re: xtail package for Debian
   Message-ID: <20010905200937.M1081@chinacat.unicom.com>

   On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:25:31AM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote:
   > I've been using xtail since the comp.sources.misc release, I find it
   > invaluable.  I'd like to package it for Debian, but I don't see
   > copyright terms in the 2.1 release.  Would you mind specifying your
   > terms and making a new release (or just mailing them to me)?  Thanks
   > very much.

   You may use it under the terms of the BSD license.  Does that work
   for you?

Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-22 17:02:40 UTC

Thanks for that. We will take of it.

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-22 21:20:05 UTC

+  22 Nov 2012; Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> xtail-2.1-r1.ebuild,
+  xtail-2.1.ebuild:
+  Change license to BSD. Bug #444338. Thanks to Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
+