Summary: | x11-apps/ttmkfdir license clarification | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) <eradicator> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | 293177 | ||
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Description
Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED)
2008-02-10 23:45:23 UTC
Oh, and freshmeat shows it as MIT: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttmkfdir I downloaded the tarball from the original homepage in the ebuild's HOMEPAGE variable, and ttmkfdir.c (the only source file, at the time, with 1480 lines) has this: /* * Copyright 1998 The XFree86 Project * * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: * * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in * all copies or substantial portions of the Software. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL * JOERG POMMNITZ BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, * WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE * SOFTWARE. * */ So that's what I would guess. Unfortunately that license seems to have been completely removed from the current tarball. You might like to file a bug with Red Hat's Bugzilla to clarify the situation. I know they're interested in getting licensing right (at least Tom Tromey is). As a further bit of confusion, it is possible to take MIT-licensed things to GPL/LGPL. They may have chosen to do that, but it's unclear. Package is getting treecleaned, see bug #293177 for more info. Thanks |