Bug 465086

Summary:	media-libs/simage: LICENSE should be "public-domain mpeg2enc", needs mirror restriction
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	QAcanfix
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465088
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	436214
Attachments:	licenses/mpeg2enc

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-08 13:18:59 UTC

Created attachment 344826 [details]
licenses/mpeg2enc

COPYING says: "All files in this library are public domain, except the files in the mpeg2enc directory. The license for the files in the mpeg2enc directory can be found in the file mpeg2enc/mpeg2enc.h."

Debian's discussion of mpeg2enc is here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg00077.html

I agree with their conclusion: "You cannot assume that you are allowed to distribute it, copy it, package it, modify it or even use it. Lack of a licence indicates full copyright protection, i.e. All Rights Reserved. You have no rights to do anything with this software without explicit consent from the copyright holders." So it looks like mirror (and bindist) restriction is needed.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-20 09:27:40 UTC

+  20 Apr 2013; Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> simage-1.7.0.ebuild:
+  Fix LICENSE, see COPYING file, bug 465086. Must not be redistributed,
+  therefore add mirror and bindist restrictions. Update SRC_URI.
+