| Summary: | sys-boot/getdvhoff, sys-boot/sgibootcd: unclear license | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ulrich Müller <ulm> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | MIPS Porters <mips> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | trivial | CC: | licenses |
| Priority: | Low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | MIPS | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 436214 | ||
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Description
Ulrich Müller
2012-12-03 08:58:44 UTC
These are two small utilities used for SGI LiveCDs (whenever I get around to creating them again). Both were written by Stanislaw Skowronek, the SGI Octane port author, mainly as an experiment many years ago (~2006?). Very likely, the license is GPLv2, but he's virtually dropped off of the internet, so I have no way of verifying. Thus, "as-is" is the most appropriate license I can think of that still applies. Not sure what to do about $HOMEPAGE. I'll have to check and see if there's another copy of it somewhere. Marking as CANTFIX. The licenses will have to stay "as-is" for now since I don't know how to get a hold of the original author to verify what license he released his code under. If I ever spot him on IRC again, I'll try to remember to ask. no, as-is is wrong if there is no valid license information, then you have to assume that the user has no rights, as in "all-rights-reserved" Changed the license in both ebuilds to "all-rights-reserved". |