LICENSE="MIT" This correctly indicates the license of gitea itself. However, the package bundles a number of modules that use more restrictive licenses and statically links them to the executable. FWICS, the additional licenses are various BSD variants, Apache-2.0 and MPL-2.0, all of them more restrictive than MIT. Unless I'm mistaken, this means that the built executable would effectively have to be licensed under the terms of most restrictive of those licenses. That would probably be MPL-2.0 but I'm not sure. Furthermore, github.com/couchbase/goutils/LICENSE.md looks like an EULA to me. Unless I'm mistaken, none of the licenses are strong copyleft like LGPL, so it should be fine to include it. However, you probably need to add it to licenses/, to @EULA group and to LICENSE variable, and users will have to explicitly accept it before installing gitea. @licenses, could you verify my interpretation?
Copy of the license in question: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/master/vendor/github.com/couchbase/goutils/LICENSE.md
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(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #1) > Copy of the license in question: > https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/master/vendor/github.com/couchbase/ > goutils/LICENSE.md This is non-free: - Clause 1 doesn't grant freedom 3 (no right to distribute modified versions). - By the paragraph following clause 1, only distribution of object code is allowed (no freedom 1, access to source code). - Clause 2 forbids reverse engineering. However, it isn't the typical language used in an EULA, so I don't believe that it belongs in that group.
The situation with the license for the goutils from couchbase has been clarified and moved to Apache-2.0: https://github.com/couchbase/goutils/commit/b49639060d85b267c5bdb7d4e3246d4ccca94e79 Gitea already fetched the change some time ago by xdch47. All license related stuff have been addressed in https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13906. The LICENSE field in the ebuild is now: LICENSE="Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 ISC MIT MPL-2.0"
