repo/gentoo:master commit in: metadata/

Ulrich Müller <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.cvs
Message-ID <1786084169.41263a2ca89ce603f7277285b1fddaed0bf479d2.ulm@gentoo>
commit:     41263a2ca89ce603f7277285b1fddaed0bf479d2
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Fri Aug  7 06:25:15 2026 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Fri Aug  7 06:29:29 2026 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=41263a2c

metadata: Add license mapping MIT-Modern-Variant -> Old-MIT

Our name is based on COPYING of media-libs/harfbuzz which says:
HarfBuzz is licensed under the so-called "Old MIT" license.

SPDX's name appears to originate from Fedora's list:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT#Modern_Variants

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/980439
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo.org>

 metadata/license-mapping.conf | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/metadata/license-mapping.conf b/metadata/license-mapping.conf
index f01ec8f9383d..5e86a5010384 100644
--- a/metadata/license-mapping.conf
+++ b/metadata/license-mapping.conf
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ MirOS = MirOS
 MIT = MIT
 MIT-0 = MIT-0
 MIT-advertising = MIT-with-advertising
+MIT-Modern-Variant = Old-MIT
 mpich2 = mpich2
 MPL-1.0 = MPL-1.0
 MPL-1.1 = MPL-1.1
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