Bug 146319 – net-wireless/madwifi-ng license

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description GNUtoo 2006-09-04 14:52:19 UTC]

most of the madwifi package is GPL2 but there is also a proprietary/binary/closed source hal that ins

[Comment 1 GNUtoo 2006-09-04 14:52:19 UTC]

most of the madwifi package is GPL2 but there is also a proprietary/binary/closed source hal that ins´t gpl
why is it important?
->because we tell me to bugreport it http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3555167.html#3555167
->because of paludis that will be able to handle the licences of the packages

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-04 14:59:36 UTC]

Plz. remove brix from metadata.xml.

[Comment 3 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-09-04 15:12:06 UTC]

thanks, fixed

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-19 22:27:34 UTC]

*** Bug 167693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2007-02-20 11:59:39 UTC]

(I came across this because of the dupe...)

"as-is" is not appropriate here. From portdir/licenses/as-is:

<<<
This is a generic place holder for a class of licenses that boil down to do
no guarantees and all you get is what you have. The language is usually
similar to:

  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
  documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
[...]
Note: Most all license have an "as is" clause. For our purposes this does
not make all software in this category. This category is for software with
very little restrictions.
>>>

An important clause here:
<<<
 * 1. The materials contained herein are unmodified and are used
 *    unmodified.
>>>

Could you please add the actual license to the tree?

[Comment 6 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2007-02-20 12:19:02 UTC]

I did it for you.