LICENSE="AGPL-3" https://www.povray.org/download/ >Starting with version 3.7, POV-Ray is released under the AGPL3 (or later) license and thus is Free Software according to the FSF definition. README.md: License -------------------------------------- The source for POV-Ray v3.7 is licensed under the AGPL3. The documentation is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license, and support files such as SDL includes, macros, sample scenes and so forth are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (see each file header for the specific one). ... Documentation -------------------------------------- When built and installed via the means provided in the source tree, all versions of POV-Ray come with documentation. For the Unix build, this is in the form of a manpage giving basic usage, and full HTML-based documentation. For the Windows version, there is a HtmlHelp (.CHM) file provided. ... scancode-toolkit doesn't find anything actually AGPLv3-only and so it's all AGPLv3-or-later (output file is too large to attach). As for the documentation, I can't find the mentioned "Unix" documentation man pages, but the windows documentation is under: distribution/platform-specific/windows/Help/povray37.chm As far as I can tell, that file is under the proprietary "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5" license. Therefore, it should be: LICENSE="AGPL-3+ CC-BY-SA-3.0 CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5"
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a43f8a0ae56cb1736cf301910571603f2e3da18f commit a43f8a0ae56cb1736cf301910571603f2e3da18f Author: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-07-20 11:15:58 +0000 Commit: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-07-20 11:15:58 +0000 media-gfx/povray: EAPI=8, fix LICENSE Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/889030 Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <arthurzam@gentoo.org> ...-3.7.0.0-r4.ebuild => povray-3.7.0.0-r5.ebuild} | 60 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
With regard to the HTML documentation that is under the Noncommercial-ShareAlike variant license, upstream says: > When built and installed via the means provided in the source tree (In reply to ganooslashlinus from comment #0) > As for the documentation, I can't find the mentioned "Unix" documentation > man pages, https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/blob/v3.7.0.0/unix/povray.1 (In reply to ganooslashlinus from comment #0) > but the windows documentation is under: > distribution/platform-specific/windows/Help/povray37.chm > > As far as I can tell, that file is under the proprietary "Creative Commons > Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5" license. > > > Therefore, it should be: LICENSE="AGPL-3+ CC-BY-SA-3.0 CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5" We don't install the chm (it is only installed via the NSIS windows installer) so we don't have to describe it in the license. We also don't ask prebuild.sh to produce HTML documentation -- but if we did, then it looks like it actually fails because of: Generate docs Cleanup ../doc Create ./docs_2024-08-26 Create ./docs_2024-08-26/distribution Copy distribution Create ./docs_2024-08-26/documentation Copy documentation cp: cannot stat '../documentation/*': No such file or directory Run makedocs sh: 0: cannot open makedocs.script: No such file Process unixhelp HTML files find: ‘./docs_2024-08-26/documentation/output/final/unixhelp/’: No such file or directory mv: cannot stat './docs_2024-08-26/documentation/output/final/unixhelp/idx.html': No such file or directory etc. It looks like they failed to actually include the parts of this that make it work? So I think we don't need the Noncommercial-ShareAlike license here at all. I was considering to add a USE=doc which selected whether or not to install this! But that seems unnecessary.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2e1e0b5cb2c61cfc1d724a9a398178dd86f9b802 commit 2e1e0b5cb2c61cfc1d724a9a398178dd86f9b802 Author: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-08-27 00:36:23 +0000 Commit: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-08-27 00:41:54 +0000 media-gfx/povray: relax license a bit and return to `@FREE` Due to documentation, povray is, per its README, partially licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA-2.5 which is *not* a free license. However, it turns out we don't install that documentation anyway: - part of it actually isn't even in the sources at all, though upstream clearly intended it to be as the build scripts try to create it but log failures due to the files being missing (and then don't actually exit with a failure status!!!) - and the other part isn't used by the build at all except when using the Windows NSIS installer, which we don't run Hence we don't need that license. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/889030 Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> .../povray/{povray-3.7.0.0-r5.ebuild => povray-3.7.0.0-r6.ebuild} | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
