Bug 445754

Summary:	sys-boot/nettrom: unclear license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Embedded Gentoo Team <embedded>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	436214

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-03 08:52:32 UTC

The ebuild currently has LICENSE="as-is" which most likely is wrong.

This is a binary package, and there is no license included in the tarball. Also I cannot find any info about distribution terms on the HOMEPAGE.

Can you please ask upstream for clarification under with terms this package can be distributed?

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-12-04 00:28:47 UTC

heh.  this has a very tricky history.  the company involved (rebel) no longer exists.  afaik, the source hasn't been released, although some people have it.  the binaries in question are shipped on devices and can be extracted via that.

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-04 07:23:14 UTC

I fear that we'll end up with adding an "all-rights-reserved" license for cases like this. But let's postpone it until I've scanned all as-is packages, because I first want to get the big picture.

Do we need RESTRICT="bindist mirror"?

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-12-06 06:19:06 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

i don't think so.  it's been almost 10 years and no gives a sh*t about this.  we're talking about a long dead platform.

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-01-24 13:24:14 UTC

OK to change LICENSE to "all-rights-reserved" for this package?

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-01-24 23:15:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)

change to whatever you like as long as it stays in the tree ;)

Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-24 05:59:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> change to whatever you like as long as it stays in the tree ;)

The problem is that all-rights-reserved implies mirror restriction. So we need a valid SRC_URI, but I cannot find one.

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-04-27 20:44:16 UTC

i've mirrored it here:
http://wh0rd.org/gentoo/nettrom-2.3.3.tar.gz

Comment 8 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-28 21:19:32 UTC

I've changed LICENSE to "all-rights-reserved" and added mirror and bindist restriction. SRC_URI refers to wh0rd.org now.

@Licenses team: Is mirror restriction enough, or do we need fetch restriction (because wh0rd.org isn't the copyright holder)? Please reopen if you think so.