463996 – dev-embedded/libftd2xx: wrong use of "as-is" license

Bug 463996 - dev-embedded/libftd2xx: wrong use of "as-is" license

Summary: dev-embedded/libftd2xx: wrong use of "as-is" license

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Blocks:	as-is-license
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Reported:	2013-03-31 13:35 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2013-04-12 22:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-03-31 13:35:29 UTC

Created attachment 343828 [details]
licenses/FTDI

According to the package's homepage, it is distributed under attached non-free license. In addition, the files in the libusb subdirectory are under LGPL-2+.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-12 22:53:37 UTC

Fixed.

(In reply to comment #0)
> In addition, the files in the libusb subdirectory are under LGPL-2+.

Actually, it says "GNU *Lesser* General Public License", so it's LGPL-2.1+.