Bug 505630 – games-emulation/xe is broken in general due to its weird licence

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) 2014-03-25 10:54:08 UTC]

«You must agree to the following before downloading:
    You will not distribute this software with ROMs.
    You will not use this software for commercial purpose.
    You will only use this software with software which you own or with public domain software.
    This software is provided 'as-is'. The author will not be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. »

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.

I'm CC'ing the licence team because this is so spectacularly broken.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-24 19:43:36 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.

[Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2014-04-24 20:15:40 UTC]

I sent a mail to the author (under a different e-mail address :P).

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2014-05-01 11:36:17 UTC]

(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?

[Comment 4 Julian Ospald 2014-05-01 11:39:39 UTC]

(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

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2014-05-03 18:33:36 UTC]

For the time being, I've changed the ebuild to LICENSE="all-rights-reserved".
Please reopen if you get a message from upstream.