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Bug 434226 - app-emulation/x48-0.4.3-r1: check what licenses are required
Summary: app-emulation/x48-0.4.3-r1: check what licenses are required
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor (vote)
Assignee: Chema Alonso Josa (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2012-09-07 16:48 UTC by zvasylvv
Modified: 2012-11-11 18:14 UTC (History)
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Description zvasylvv 2012-09-07 16:48:13 UTC
In recent mail thread we agreed that would be nice to take a look on LICENSE var for package 

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Ulrich Mueller ✆ via kph.uni-mainz.de 
Aug 28 (10 days ago)

to me, licenses 
>>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012, Vasyl Zuzyak wrote:

>>> app-emulation/x48/x48-0.4.3-r1
>>
>>> LICENSE="|| ( ( GPL-2 free-noncomm ) GPL-2 )"
>>
>> This looks strange to me. It would mean that one can choose between
>> "GPL-2 and free-noncomm" and GPL-2 alone.
>>
>> Looking into the sources, I can find only GPL-2 in the main tarball.
>> I've no idea what the copyright status of the included ROM images is.
>> Maybe we're not allowed to distribute them at all.

> Maybe we need to fill a bug with request of small investigation on this?

Yes, please do.

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Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-09-07 18:47:35 UTC
Reassigning to package maintainer. What licenses are associated with the sxrom-j.zip and gxrom-r.zip distfiles?
Comment 2 Chema Alonso Josa (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-09-08 16:32:57 UTC
According to hpcalc.org [1]:

"HP graciously began allowing this (the ROM file) to be downloaded in mid-2000."

Another link on this [2]. 

I haven't found any official notification from HP about this fact, though.

Version 0.6.4 is stable for all arches and no ROMs are shipped with it, so I suggest to wipe out version 0.4.3-r1 and the ROM files at g.o/distfiles to get around this. 

Regards.

[1] http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/
[2] http://hp.giesselink.com/emu48faq.htm#ROM
Comment 3 Chema Alonso Josa (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-11-11 18:14:57 UTC
=app-emulation/x48-0.4.3-r1 removed from the tree. No references to HP48 ROMS in the ebuilds now.