Summary: | games-emulation/xe is broken in general due to its weird licence | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) <bernalex> |
Component: | [OLD] Games | Assignee: | Gentoo Games <games> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | licenses |
Priority: | Normal | Keywords: | UPSTREAM |
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 436214 |
Description
Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED)
2014-03-25 10:54:08 UTC
(In reply to Alexander Berntsen from comment #0) > From <http://www.xe-emulator.com/index.php?m=download>. > > This is so stupid I'd prefer to just treeclean it. But at the very least I > think we need to fetch restrict it ("must agree before downloading") and add > this licence to the tree. Also: - "You will not distribute this software with ROMs" is meaningless. There is nothing that would grant the right to distribute it at all, in the first place. - "You will only use this software with software which you own or with public domain software" would effectively forbid using the software, because it links against GTK+, which isn't in the public domain. However, it's not enforced that the user sees that message. Fetching from SRC_URI just works. So maybe "all-rights-reserved" along with mirror restriction would be sufficient? IANAL, TINLA. I sent a mail to the author (under a different e-mail address :P). (In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #2) > I sent a mail to the author (under a different e-mail address :P). Any reply? (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #3) > (In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #2) > > I sent a mail to the author (under a different e-mail address :P). > > Any reply? not yet For the time being, I've changed the ebuild to LICENSE="all-rights-reserved". Please reopen if you get a message from upstream. |