Opened 4 years ago
Closed 4 years ago
#60706 closed defect (fixed)
xxhash: license BSD isn't entirely correct
| Reported by: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) | Owned by: | Schamschula (Marius Schamschula) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 2.6.2 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | xxhash |
Description
The xxhash port says it is under the BSD license but that's not completely accurate. The xxhash library is BSD licensed but the xxhsum program is under GPL-2+.
https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/blob/dev/LICENSE
Modifying the port to specify that it is under both licenses would be bad because that could prevent ports linking with the library from being distributable (see e.g. #60704).
How about splitting the xxhsum files out into their own xxhsum subport? That way you can properly indicate the license of both xxhash and xxhsum.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
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Sounds like a good plan!