Bug 448410

Summary:	dev-ml/lablgtk: unclear license for examples
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Team for the ML programming language family <ml>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
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

2012-12-24 14:11:44 UTC

COPYING says:

   For the examples subdirectory, there is no specific licensing policy,
   but you may freely take inspiration from the code, and copy parts of
   it in your application.

This definitely isn't "as-is", and it's not clear to me if it's even free. (For example, it is not clear if distribution of such applications containing parts of the examples would be allowed.)

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-06-02 15:35:20 UTC

I've added the snippet from example file headers as "lablgtk-examples" license.

Comment 2 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-05-10 17:59:06 UTC

Debian consider this license free, what to do?
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/lablgtk2/lablgtk2_2.18.3+dfsg-2_copyright

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-05-11 15:52:17 UTC

(In reply to Alessandro Barbieri from comment #2)
> Debian consider this license free, what to do?
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/lablgtk2/lablgtk2_2.18.3+dfsg-2_copyright

Have they discussed it anywhere publicly visible?

I just don't see how we could add this "license" (if it even is one) to @FREE, as it doesn't grant the four freedoms.