| Summary: | Removal: dev-util/dialogblocks, dev-util/helpblocks: wrong use of "as-is" license | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ulrich Müller <ulm> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo wxWidgets project <wxwidgets> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | licenses |
| Priority: | Normal | Keywords: | PMASKED |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | Remove 2013-06-05 | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 436214 | ||
| Attachments: | licenses/Anthemion | ||
In that case I have no interest in continuing to distribute these packages. I'll mask and remove them. (In reply to comment #1) > In that case I have no interest in continuing to distribute these packages. > I'll mask and remove them. It is your right as the packages' maintainer to make this decision, of course. Just for clarification, I wouldn't see a problem if the ebuilds were marked with LICENSE="Anthemion" and RESTRICT="mirror bindist". We're distributing ebuilds, not the software itself, so the license is only between Anthemion Software and the user. Yep, I understand. We took these packages in after the maintainer retired years ago. This is the first time I've really looked at them actually. We have better options. |
Created attachment 344550 [details] licenses/Anthemion dev-util/dialogblocks and dev-util/helpblocks are distributed under attached restrictive license agreement. IIUC, we are not allowed to redistribute the software, so the ebuilds need to be mirror restricted: "Anthemion Software hereby grants to the user a temporary, non-exclusive license to use this Software solely for internal purposes. User shall not commercially distribute, sub-license, resell, or otherwise transfer for any consideration, or reproduce for any such purposes, the Software or any modification or derivation thereof, either alone or in conjunction with any other products or programs." @Licenses team: The license looks like a candidate for the EULA license group.