Bug 441922 – sys-apps/adjtime: missing license

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ulrich Müller 2012-11-05 19:56:10 UTC]

It's only a single perl script, but with about 200 lines it's long enough to be copyrightable, so some sort of license is needed.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2013-06-02 16:07:16 UTC]

Mail to upstream sent.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-14 08:49:06 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> Mail to upstream sent.

Never received any reply. How shall we proceed here?

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-29 09:44:03 UTC]

I've resent my question, but again no answer from Don North.

This article: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.linkstation.linux/1345 says that adjtime.zip was first uploaded, apparently to Yahoo groups, in 2005. I cannot find it there any more, but it is still hosted at nerdboy's site: http://www.gentoogeek.org/files/adjtime.zip

So here's plan #1:
- We don't have any license information, therefore we must assume
  LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" and mirror/bindist restrict the package.
- We remove the script from filesdir and use above SRC_URI instead.
  (Both adjtime.pl files are identical, except for one small change in
  a pathname which can be patched easily.)

Alternatively, plan #2: Since the package was last 8 years ago and neither upstream nor the Gentoo maintainers replied, I assume that it is pretty much unmaintained. So we could just last-rite it (maybe with an extended deadline of 60 days) and see if any users will complain.

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-30 18:29:59 UTC]

Since there are no open bugs for this package (no bugs, or no users?), I've fixed it like this:
> - We don't have any license information, therefore we must assume
>   LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" and mirror/bindist restrict the package.
> - We remove the script from filesdir and use above SRC_URI instead.
>   (Both adjtime.pl files are identical, except for one small change in
>   a pathname which can be patched easily.)