Bug 441640

Summary:	media-sound/timidity-shompatches: unclear license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flameeyes, licenses, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Pending removal: 2013-05-28
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	436214

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-11-03 22:19:21 UTC

No license is included in the zipball. The HOMEPAGE is dead and the saved version at archive.org doesn't say anything about terms for distribution.

It's not clear to me if we are even allowed to redistribute this.
But LICENSE="as=is" is definitely wrong.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-27 18:57:40 UTC

@flameeyes: CCing you since you've last bumped this package.

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-28 12:30:11 UTC

Feel free to kill.

Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2013-04-28 12:37:23 UTC

fink says: License: Restrictive

I dont know what it means; feel free to remove though.

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-28 12:54:27 UTC

+# Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> (28 Apr 2013)
+# HOMEPAGE and SRC_URI dead, license issues.
+# Use timidity-freepats or timidity-eawpatches as replacement.
+# Masked for removal in 30 days, bug #441640.
+media-sound/timidity-shompatches
+

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-27 06:28:36 UTC

Removed.