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Bug 436630 - sci-astronomy/xephem: wrong use of "as-is" license
Summary: sci-astronomy/xephem: wrong use of "as-is" license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Astronomy project
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Keywords: QAcanfix
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Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2012-09-30 08:10 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2012-09-30 19:08 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-09-30 08:10:59 UTC
Excerpt from the Copyright file included with the tarball:

   Permission to build and run XEphem from this source code is granted only
   for personal use or for bona fide educational situations or research funded
   by public funds. Permission is expressly prohibited in commercial or
   military situations without prior agreement.

   XEphem source code may not be used, in whole or in part, to build other
   computer programs under any circumstances without prior agreement.

   Redistribution rights: You may redistribute XEphem source code only in its
   entirety and without modification. You may redistribute binaries only if
   they were built from the original source code, or from source code with
   very minor changes made for the purpose of porting and not for the purposes
   of changing functionality.

This is _not_ Free Software, but has usage restrictions and allows only unmodified redistribution. LICENSE should be changed to "free-noncomm" (which would still be approximate only), or the xephem license should be added to the tree.
Comment 1 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-30 08:32:41 UTC
+  30 Sep 2012; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> xephem-3.7.3.ebuild,
+  xephem-3.7.5.ebuild:
+  Use XEphem license wrt #436630 by Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>