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Bug 441922 - sys-apps/adjtime: missing license
Summary: sys-apps/adjtime: missing license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: PPC Porters
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Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2012-11-05 19:56 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2019-08-24 06:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-11-05 19:56:10 UTC
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.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-06-02 16:07:16 UTC
Mail to upstream sent.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-04-14 08:49:06 UTC
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> Mail to upstream sent.

Never received any reply. How shall we proceed here?
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-04-29 09:44:03 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-04-30 18:29:59 UTC
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.)