[Bug 261661] devel/log4shib: FreeBSD Makefile shows APACHE20 but project appears to be LGPL license

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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:23:22 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261661

            Bug ID: 261661
           Summary: devel/log4shib: FreeBSD Makefile shows APACHE20 but
                    project appears to be LGPL license
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: girgen@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: Clint.Clayton@dell.com
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(girgen@FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: girgen@FreeBSD.org

FreeBSD's Makefile for log4shib shows APACHE20, but the project appears to be
LGPL licensed.

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/devel/log4shib/Makefile

Looking at the project it contains a COPYING file that shows a GPL license
Showing just the contents of a head of the file:

                  GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
                       Version 2.1, February 1999

 Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  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


Looking through the project's ChangeLog file it contains the following change
message: 

2001-02-15 Bastiaan Bakker <bastiaan.bakker@lifeline.nl>
        Release 0.2.1
        Changed license to the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).


I also noticed that homebrew shows the project as LGPL as well:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/log4shib.rb#L6

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