Bug 445828

Summary:	app-vim/nagios-syntax: unclear license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Vim Maintainers <vim>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses, ramereth
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	436214

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-03 18:47:29 UTC

There is no license information in these packages.

@ramereth: You are listed as upstream maintainer for both. Can you clarify under which terms they are distributed?

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-01 10:45:30 UTC

Looks like cfengine-syntax originates from here:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=329
So we could change LICENSE to vim.org for it.

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-17 08:14:44 UTC

I've marked cfengine-syntax with LICENSE="vim.org".

This leaves us with nagios-syntax. According to the information in its header, original author is Ava Arachne Jarvis <ajar@katanalynx.dyndns.org>.

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 08:41:30 UTC

Ping. Any news here?

Without a license, we're not allowed to distribute the tarball.

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-14 12:23:18 UTC

Given that nagios-syntax is also available at vim.org, I suggest that we change the ebuild as follows:

HOMEPAGE="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2261"
LICENSE="vim.org"

Looks like the version at vim.org is newer, so eventually the version could be bumped.

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-16 07:00:25 UTC

Fixed.

I've filed bug 507786 for the version bump.