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Bug 834983 - dev-util/rocm-smi please review the NCSA-AMD license
Summary: dev-util/rocm-smi please review the NCSA-AMD license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Licenses team
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Reported: 2022-03-12 04:34 UTC by Alessandro Barbieri
Modified: 2022-03-14 16:26 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Alessandro Barbieri 2022-03-12 04:34:13 UTC
Is this "new" license a duplicate? Is it free?
Comment 1 Alessandro Barbieri 2022-03-14 02:54:16 UTC
Fedora say that is MIT
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rocm-smi/blob/rawhide/f/rocm-smi.spec#_6
Comment 2 Joonas Niilola gentoo-dev 2022-03-14 05:23:35 UTC
It looks like BSD but there are (old) files installed with MIT license. 5.0.2 is already updated to include MIT too.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/dev-util/rocm-smi?id=1751e08cc123a50bbf4cc56ee6851e57cdce3641

As to NCSA-AMD, there are some files with custom copyright attribution and an issue opened:
https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/rocm_smi_lib/issues/97
also: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rocm-smi-lib Licenses: custom:NCSAOSL 

As to is it free, it's not added to any free license groups so I assumed that doesn't make it a "free" license. Although maybe it should be added to the restricted list.
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2022-03-14 05:43:33 UTC
This is a strange hybrid of MIT and BSD: The first paragraph and the warranty disclaimer are taken from MIT, with the 3 BSD clauses between them.

Should be added to @MISC-FREE AFAICS.
Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2022-03-14 16:26:32 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ae2dcceb98fab78f8a1a344883ff24e8af232c40

commit ae2dcceb98fab78f8a1a344883ff24e8af232c40
Author:     Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-03-14 16:10:25 +0000
Commit:     Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-03-14 16:26:17 +0000

    profiles: add NCSA-AMD to license_groups
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/834983
    Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <juippis@gentoo.org>

 profiles/license_groups | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)