Bug 24918

Summary:	Copyright Issue in /etc/inputrc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Guillaume Morin (RETIRED) <arachne>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	areversat, beta, bmm80
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	/etc/inputrc

Description Guillaume Morin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-20 14:33:11 UTC

We have found SuSE's copyright in the last version of the /etc/inputrc file!

################################################################################
## /etc/inputrc
##
## Attempt to put different TERMs together in one readline init file.
## Copyright (c) 1997 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
##
## Author: Werner Fink,  <werner@suse.de>
##
## $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/inputrc,v 1.5 2003/02/17
02:48:39 azarah Exp $
##
################################################################################


I don't know if this file comes from Suse but I think we have to repair it
quickly by creating a new one!

Comment 1 Guillaume Morin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-20 14:35:30 UTC

Created attachment 14786 [details]
/etc/inputrc

Comment 2 Zhen Lin 2003-07-23 08:09:18 UTC

Removing copyrights is illegal.

If it did come from SUSE, we must leave it be or replace the whole file.

Comment 3 Antoine REVERSAT 2003-07-24 04:28:49 UTC

The point isn't to remove the copyright it's that it isn't mentioned if it is  or not under GPL (it seems it isn't) so we shouldn't be using it...

Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-28 12:29:06 UTC

Fixed in CVS.

Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-28 12:37:34 UTC

Note it was fixed by replacing with non copyrighted version (totally different
version ... )

Comment 6 Luke Maurer (Jyrinx) 2003-08-29 14:40:12 UTC

Hey - Just a quick note: I wish you'd made the inputrc switch somehow more conspicuous - the changes to bash behavior (as in #26036, which bit me, too) were jarring and mysterious; it's not obvious to the casual bash user where to tweak that sort of thing. (I do realize it had to be switched in a hurry, of course ... I'd just like to have known.) Thanks!