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Bug 450450 - games-misc/fortune-mod-{dubya,familyguy,firefly,futurama,smac,strangelove}: wrong use of "as-is" license
Summary: games-misc/fortune-mod-{dubya,familyguy,firefly,futurama,smac,strangelove}: w...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Keywords: QAcanfix
Depends on:
Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2013-01-05 20:11 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2017-10-15 00:55 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-01-05 20:11:55 UTC
All these packages are currently labelled as-is which doesn't look right.

games-misc/fortune-mod-dubya
   No license is included with the package.
   HOMEPAGE is dead, but its archived version at
   <http://web.archive.org/web/20051211013223/http://seiler.us/wiki/index.php/Dubya> says:
   "The great majority of these quotes were originally gathered in the
   fantastic George W. Bush Desk Calendar (http://www.bushcalendar.com/).
   I highly recommend getting one or five. So full credit should really go
   to the team there. All I did was more or less rekey their work into a
   fortune-mod module.
   Also the more recent quotes came from dubyaspeak (http://dubyaspeak.com/)."

games-misc/fortune-mod-familyguy *
   No license is included with the package.
   HOMEPAGE says: "Random collection of quotes from FOX's Family Guy
   formatted for use with the fortune command."

games-misc/fortune-mod-firefly
   No license is included with the package.
   No info on HOMEPAGE.

games-misc/fortune-mod-futurama *
   Ditto.

games-misc/fortune-mod-smac *
   No license is included with the package.
   HOMEPAGE: "a fortune cookie file for fortune-mod, using ripped quotes
   from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire."

games-misc/fortune-mod-strangelove
   README says: "A collection of quotes from "Dr. Strangelove or: How I
   Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

@Licenses team: Not sure what we should do here. All of them are collections of quotes from copyrighted material, which may or may not be "fair use".
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-01-05 20:28:08 UTC
I forgot to mention: For packages marked with a star the distfile is still available upstream, for the case that mirror restriction is needed.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-01-12 09:19:53 UTC
I've changed all of them to "fairuse". I'm not completely happy with it, but it is better than "as-is" at least.