Bug 446154

Summary:	net-dialup/capidivert: unclear license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Stefan Briesenick (RETIRED) <sbriesen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses, net-dialup
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	436214
Attachments:	Answer from Kai Germaschewski

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-05 20:35:20 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 its HOMEPAGE doesn't help because it is dead.

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

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-05 20:39:29 UTC

Sorry, I used the wrong template for filing the bug. This is not a binary package. (The rest was correct, though.)

Comment 2 Stefan Briesenick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-24 21:19:45 UTC

well, there's neither a license header within the source, nor a seperate file. It's quite old, but still works fine.

The only thing i remember was "source as-is". nothing else.

hmmm...

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-08 05:14:20 UTC

According to the homepage archived at archive.org, the author of this package is Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>.

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-08 05:31:47 UTC

Mail sent.

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-08 12:30:03 UTC

Created attachment 347746 [details]
Answer from Kai Germaschewski

Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-08 16:57:17 UTC

Upstream has confirmed in a second e-mail message that this can be distributed under GPL-2+.