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Bug 38505 - pornview violates the GPL
Summary: pornview violates the GPL
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/...
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Reported: 2004-01-17 06:15 UTC by Stefan
Modified: 2004-01-26 21:08 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan 2004-01-17 06:15:26 UTC
Pornview contain code of another GPL Program but all copyright notices are removed (I found nothing in about with pornview-0.2.0_pre1.ebuild installed). Read there:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200212/msg00159.html

Also on all Pornview sites the files to download are removed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Stefan 2004-01-17 06:29:04 UTC
There is still a place to download it:
http://alioth.debian.org/scm/?group_id=1261

And he added the line "Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>" to the AUTHORS file:
http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/pornview/AUTHORS?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=pornview

But the file of Ebuild pornview-0.2.0_pre1.ebuild contain the old version:
/usr/share/doc/pornview-0.2.0_pre1/AUTHORS.gz
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-01-18 02:01:26 UTC
just because debian peeps add patches to the code and thus to the AUTHORS file means nothing to us

we're not using debian patches on this package so we shouldnt care

in terms of removing the package from portage, until something happens upstream along the lines of the author going 'my project is dead' i say leave it alone
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-01-26 21:08:41 UTC
the thread goes on to say that it has been resolved between the two authors
Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-01-26 21:08:57 UTC
so theres nothing for us to do