It's only a single perl script, but with about 200 lines it's long enough to be copyrightable, so some sort of license is needed.
Mail to upstream sent.
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1) > Mail to upstream sent. Never received any reply. How shall we proceed here?
I've resent my question, but again no answer from Don North. This article: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.linkstation.linux/1345 says that adjtime.zip was first uploaded, apparently to Yahoo groups, in 2005. I cannot find it there any more, but it is still hosted at nerdboy's site: http://www.gentoogeek.org/files/adjtime.zip So here's plan #1: - We don't have any license information, therefore we must assume LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" and mirror/bindist restrict the package. - We remove the script from filesdir and use above SRC_URI instead. (Both adjtime.pl files are identical, except for one small change in a pathname which can be patched easily.) Alternatively, plan #2: Since the package was last 8 years ago and neither upstream nor the Gentoo maintainers replied, I assume that it is pretty much unmaintained. So we could just last-rite it (maybe with an extended deadline of 60 days) and see if any users will complain.
Since there are no open bugs for this package (no bugs, or no users?), I've fixed it like this: > - We don't have any license information, therefore we must assume > LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" and mirror/bindist restrict the package. > - We remove the script from filesdir and use above SRC_URI instead. > (Both adjtime.pl files are identical, except for one small change in > a pathname which can be patched easily.)