Bug 505858

Summary:	games-misc/c++robots: unclear license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
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

2014-03-26 10:16:47 UTC

As already noted by vapier in bug 7200 comment #2, the license of this package is not clear.

The largest source file combat.c has a GPL-2+ license notice. Other source files don't come with any copyright or license notice, and README says "All rights reserved."

I am going to ask for clarification from upstream. Otherwise, this will be moved to "GPL-2+ all-rights-reserved" and mirror/bindist restriction.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-17 19:23:55 UTC

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0)
> I am going to ask for clarification from upstream.

No reply. However, the tarball contains a LICENSE file with a BSD license (3-clause BSD, with a request for sending patches disguised as a 4th clause). I believe that LICENSE="BSD" will be close enough, so that we don't need a separate license file.

Strange that I've missed the LICENSE file in the tarball when I looked first.


BTW, the package doesn't build. Bug 507932 now.