Bug 446540

Summary:	net-misc/ncp: unclear license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Michael Weber (RETIRED) <xmw>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
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

2012-12-08 22:14:06 UTC

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

- No license is included in the package's tarball.
- I cannot find any license information on the HOMEPAGE.

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

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-08 22:35:12 UTC

Can you please ask yourself, before filing these bugs?

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-08 23:21:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you please ask yourself, before filing these bugs?

It's your responsibility as the maintainer to sort this out, before the initial import of the ebuild. Especially, here it's not even clear if redistribution of the package is allowed, so the distfile shouldn't be on our mirrors.

This said, myself or another member of the licenses team may eventually contact upstream for those packages that have an unclear license. But we need a bug anyway, in order to trace the issue.

Comment 3 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-09 00:56:25 UTC

hereby done, i'll reply the answer and change the package accordingly.

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-01-24 13:29:01 UTC

Any news?

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-14 09:18:10 UTC

"ncp --version" outputs the following message:

   Written by Felix von Leitner <felix-ncp@fefe.de>
   This is free software; copy and use it as you like.  No warranty.

Mail to upstream sent, asking for clarification.

Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-14 12:14:28 UTC

I've received an answer (Message-ID <534BC663.9020704@fefe.de>) from Felix von Leitner, clarifying that ncp is in the public domain:

libowfat ist GPL, ncp ist public domain.

Comment 7 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-14 12:18:03 UTC

LICENSE in ebuild fixed.