FS#80250 - [libcap] BSD-3-Clause license requires a custom license in /usr/share/licenses/libcap

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Phillip Pearson (myelin) - Monday, 13 November 2023, 21:44 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To David Runge (dvzrv)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

libcap includes BSD-3-Clause in its license string since https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/libcap/-/commit/2da367418c41811604e6448aafef26678ea7eddb

This is a custom-ish license that isn't present in /usr/share/licenses/spdx because it contains a copyright notice, so it needs the package to copy its license into /usr/share/licenses/$PKGNAME.

An example package that does this is alsa-ucm-conf -- https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/alsa-ucm-conf/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads

It looks like the file you want is libcap-2.69/License from https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/libcap-2.69.tar.gz -- which interestingly doesn't appear to match the BSD-3-Clause text from https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/src/BSD-3-Clause.xml

IIUC PKGBUILD probably needs this in package():

`install -vDm 644 $pkgname-$pkgver/License -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"`
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Closed by  Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Moved
Additional comments about closing:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/libcap/issues/1

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