[Bug 200021] graphics/libvisual04: bogus LICENSE (GPLv2 vs. LGPL21)
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Bug ID: 200021
Summary: graphics/libvisual04: bogus LICENSE (GPLv2 vs. LGPL21)
Product: Ports & Packages
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: Individual Port(s)
Assignee: crees at FreeBSD.org
Reporter: jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Assignee: crees at FreeBSD.org
Flags: maintainer-feedback?(crees at FreeBSD.org)
Created attachment 156452
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fix
According to the project page on sf.net the license is "GNU Library or Lesser
General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)". However, looking in COPYING file
within tarball it's actually LGPL v2.1. Ports framework already provides such
license.
$ make extract
$ diff -uwr $(make -V PORTSDIR)/Templates/Licenses/LGPL21 \
$(make -V WRKSRC)/COPYING
# after applying the patch
$ make install
$ head /usr/local/share/licenses/libvisual04-0.4.0_5/LGPL21
GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2.1, February 1999
Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
[This is the first released version of the Lesser GPL. It also counts
as the successor of the GNU Library Public License, version 2, hence
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