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Bug 703616 - games-fps/ut2004-bonuspack-cbp2-1-r3: LICENSE should be "free-noncomm all-rights-reserved"
Summary: games-fps/ut2004-bonuspack-cbp2-1-r3: LICENSE should be "free-noncomm all-rig...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Blocks: freedist-license
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Reported: 2019-12-23 13:44 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2019-12-23 23:21 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-12-23 13:44:39 UTC
Help/Readme.txt in cbp2-volume2_zip.zip says:

   Copyright / Permissions
   -----------------------
   These levels are copyrighted by the CBP Team, 2004.
   Authors may NOT use this level as a base to build additional levels.

   You are NOT allowed to commercially exploit this level, i.e. put it on
   a CD or any other electronic medium that is sold for money without CBP
   team's explicit permission!

   You MAY distribute this BSP through any electronic network (internet,
   FIDO, local BBS etc.), provided you include this file and leave the
   archive intact.

   Please ask permission before using meshes/textures in these maps for
   your own projects. Chances are we will say yes but would like to keep
   track of where they are used. Thanks.

If there was only this, LICENSE="free-noncomm" would be sufficient.

Unfortunately, cbp2-volume1_zip.zip doesn't contain such a general README file, but only files for (some of) the individual levels. While most of them grant the same permissions as the above README file, others don't:

Help/AS-Thrust.txt:

   All contents of AS-Thrust.ut2, Ty_RocketTextures.utx and
   Ty_RocketSmeshes.usx are copyright Tynan Sylvester 2004. If you wish
   to host this file on the internet, you are free to do so, though
   please mail me first at tynan@planetunreal.com.

With the "mail me first" condition, this isn't freely distributable (we cannot ask our mirror operators to send mail to the author).

Help/CTF-CBP2-Deep.txt:

   That's enough... This level and it's meshes/textures are copyright
   Cory 'SpoonDog' Spooner, May 2004.

That one doesn't grant any permissions.

Help/DM-CBP2-Archipelago.txt, Help/DM-CBP2-Summit.txt, Help/ONS-CBP2-Mirage.txt, and Help/ONS-CBP2-Tropica.txt don't grant any permissions either. Plus, there are some levels that aren't covered by any help file.

tl;dr
LICENSE="free-noncomm all-rights-reserved"
RESTRICT="mirror bindist"
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2019-12-23 23:21:42 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=32409a75ef42502916728c07bbed3550995f24fe

commit 32409a75ef42502916728c07bbed3550995f24fe
Author:     James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-12-23 23:20:12 +0000
Commit:     James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-12-23 23:21:20 +0000

    games-fps/ut2004-bonuspack-cbp2: Fix LICENSE
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/703616
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.82, Repoman-2.3.20
    Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>

 games-fps/ut2004-bonuspack-cbp2/ut2004-bonuspack-cbp2-1-r3.ebuild | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)