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Bug 545396 - sci-misc/mendeleydesktop-1.13.3 software is not free
Summary: sci-misc/mendeleydesktop-1.13.3 software is not free
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Angelo Arrifano (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2015-04-03 11:53 UTC by Jonas Stein
Modified: 2015-04-08 06:17 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev 2015-04-03 11:53:57 UTC
DESCRIPTION="A free research management tool for desktop and web"

as far I could investigate the software it has nothing to do with free software. 

DESCRIPTION="A propriety research management tool for desktop and web"

I could not see the source code in the tar ball. (perhaps did not find the right one?) If there is no source, should we rename the ebuild to bin?


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Marius Brehler 2015-04-05 07:57:12 UTC
From the mendeley website [1]:
"Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device."

Mendeley isn't opensource, but it is free to use. I don't see a need to rename the ebuild to mendeleydekstop-bin. For example, also nvidia-cuda-toolkit contains static libs for which the source code isn't public available (proprietary closed source).


[1] https://www.mendeley.com/
Comment 2 Marius Brehler 2015-04-05 07:58:50 UTC
One more addition. It is quite clear that mendeleydesktop isn't that free as a user has to accept the Mendeley-terms (was Mendeley-EULA before) via /etc/portage/package.license
Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-04-08 06:17:10 UTC
+  08 Apr 2015; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> mendeleydesktop-1.13.6.ebuild:
+  Drop 'free' from DESCRIPTION to reduce confusion with free software, bug
+  #545396
+