Bug 105366 – Creative Commons licenses have been updated

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Peter Hyman 2005-09-09 05:16:40 UTC]

In /usr/portage/licenses, there is only 

/usr/portage/licenses/creativecommons-by-nc-sa-1.0

Recently, while creating an ebuild, I discovered the license was -2.0. Now the
current is -2.5.

I believe the list of licenses should be updated to include all CC licenses to
allow developers flexibility to properly annotate ebuilds.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/

In addition, maintainers may wish to add additional CC licenses, just to be
complete. 2.5 is the current revision.

[Comment 1 Peter Hyman 2005-09-09 05:28:34 UTC]

In addition, the license creativecommons- should probably be renamed to CCPL-*
like the others (just noticed that). So, the CCPL licenses need to be updated to
include non-commercial share alike, and have all versions updated too.

[Comment 2 . 2005-10-02 20:40:20 UTC]

licenses do not automatically carry over to updated versions, it is up to the
creator to implement the new license for it.

They have been updated to CCPL-*

basically this bug can be closed as invalid

[Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2005-10-02 20:42:16 UTC]

dev-lisp/cl-aspectl/cl-aspectl-0.6.4.ebuild:LICENSE="CCPL-Attribution-2.0" 
Since version 0.6.5 the Creative Commons License has been replaced with an 
MIT-style license. 
 
app-doc/linux-device-drivers/linux-device-drivers-3.ebuild:LICENSE="CCPL-Attribution-ShareAlike-2.0" 
is at the latest version 
 
games-arcade/barbarian-bin/barbarian-bin-1.01.ebuild:LICENSE="CCPL-Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs-2.0" 
hasn't been updated in years and is unlikely  to use a new version of the 
license. 
 
Devs will add the latest version of the license when something uses it.