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Bug 702480 - app-text/tkinfo-2.8-r1: LICENSE should be "Old-MIT GPL-1+"
Summary: app-text/tkinfo-2.8-r1: LICENSE should be "Old-MIT GPL-1+"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: 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: freedist-license
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Reported: 2019-12-10 16:58 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2019-12-11 14:59 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-12-10 16:58:29 UTC
The ebuild currently says "freedist", but the README file says this:

   License?
   --------

   TkInfo is free. The TkInfo script itself is covered under a BSD-style
   license (start the program, type 'h' and go to "Copyright"). The man
   page and the pixmap were contributed by the Debian project and are
   covered by the GPL.

The "BSD-style" copyright in tkinfo is actually what we call Old-MIT.

tkinfo.1 says "GNU Public [sic!] License" without version, so (by section 9 of GPL-2 or section 14 of GPL-3) it can be distributed under any GPL version.
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2019-12-11 14:59:51 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0674f02bb8388811fdfe09b23997b7c6635a0ff4

commit 0674f02bb8388811fdfe09b23997b7c6635a0ff4
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-12-11 14:57:03 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-12-11 14:59:37 +0000

    app-text/tkinfo: Fix LICENSE.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702480
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.81, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 app-text/tkinfo/tkinfo-2.8-r1.ebuild | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)