Bug 1257516

Summary:	License for less should be BSD
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe>
Component:	less	Assignee:	Viktor Jancik <vjancik>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	hhorak, jmlich83, vjancik
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Description Sitsofe Wheeler 2015-08-27 09:03:03 UTC

Description of problem:
The RPM spec for less says less's license is GPLv3+ whereas it should be BSD(-like).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
less-471-4.fc22.x86_64

How reproducible:
Reproducible every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qi less | grep Lic

Actual results:
License     : GPLv3+

Expected results:
License     : BSD

Additional info:
less is one of the few GNU projects (along with ncurses) that doesn't have a GPL license despite what http://www.gnu.org/software/less/ says. /usr/share/licenses/less/LICENSE seems to look two clause BSD like (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD?rd=Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD ) and was flagged as BSD by FOSSology.

Comment 1 Sitsofe Wheeler 2015-08-28 14:14:43 UTC

Further inspection seems to suggest it's actually dual licensed: GPLv3 and BSD. From the README:

[...]
This program is free software. You may redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of either:

1. The GNU General Public License, as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any
later version. A copy of this license is in the file COPYING.
or
2. The Less License, in the file LICENSE.

So
Expected results:
License     : GPLv3+ or BSD

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2015-09-02 12:42:18 UTC

less-479-2.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14867

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-09-02 13:05:47 UTC

less-471-5.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14870

Comment 4 Sitsofe Wheeler 2015-09-03 06:07:58 UTC

This release doesn't appear to fix the license issue in the RPM spec itself:

# rpm -qi less
Name        : less
Version     : 471
Release     : 5.fc22
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu 03 Sep 2015 06:55:16 BST
Group       : Applications/Text
Size        : 298361
License     : GPLv3+

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/less.git/commit/?h=f22&id=12956e7bcd23072fa08a0caf67458b8401a1eae7 shows the spec changing the files that are packaged but there's no change to the license field itself.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-09-03 09:52:39 UTC

less-479-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update less'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14867

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-09-03 19:20:49 UTC

less-471-5.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update less'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14870

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-09-04 19:45:47 UTC

less-479-2.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Sitsofe Wheeler 2015-09-04 22:35:24 UTC

Hang on - I don't think the problem is fixed. See comment #4 - the license in the RPM spec file is unchanged...

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-09-24 08:26:36 UTC

less-471-5.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.