The package says it's LGPL-2 but there's no trace of license in sources. Apparently back when it was added in 2004 by avenj, he already couldn't find any homepage and linked freshmeat for it. I've been able to find an ancient copy of freshmeat in webarchive [1] (they started blocking mirroring afterwards, then the project was removed) and it also says LGPL-2. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about providing this package. Looking at the nickname, it was probably added to freshmeat by its author. However, I have mixed feelings about basing license assumption on mirrored copy of ancient freshmeat page. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20030816160824/http://freshmeat.net/projects/netsed/?topic_id=43
The author is Michal Zalewski. If there's interest in this package I'm sure we can get licensing confirmation from him. There seems to be a fork that is GPL-2 licensed on github (which should be fine if the LGPL info is correct as LGPL-2 code can be relicensed as GPL-2): https://github.com/xlab/netsed
Michal confirmed the LGPL license: >Yep. It was originally released as LGPL. I actually have the source >code with a license here: > >http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/obsolete/netsed.tgz
So, looks like this bug can be closed then?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=4eefc231b50b23b2b19af344630f0844ba856716 commit 4eefc231b50b23b2b19af344630f0844ba856716 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-11-04 07:48:03 +0000 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-11-04 07:54:44 +0000 net-misc/netsed: Bump to 0.01c Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/692220 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> net-misc/netsed/Manifest | 1 + net-misc/netsed/files/netsed-0.01c-man.patch | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ net-misc/netsed/netsed-0.01c.ebuild | 29 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 109 insertions(+)
