Summary: | x11-misc/mgm: unclear license | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ulrich Müller <ulm> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Desktop Misc. Team <desktop-misc> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | licenses, monty |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/mgm/COPYING | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 436214 |
Description
Ulrich Müller
2012-12-10 18:52:46 UTC
seems it's simply unlicensed then, no? At least those tarballs (In reply to comment #1) > seems it's simply unlicensed then, no? At least those tarballs That's well possible. Unfortunately, copyright law works in a way that "unlicensed" means "all rights reserved". But maybe we should wait for the trustees' decision in bug 444424. doc/index.html: [...] MGM, Xiphophorus and their logos are trademarks (tm) of <a href="http://www.xiph.org/">Xiphophorus</a>. These pages are copyright (C) 1994-1999 Xiphophorus. All rights reserved.<p> But that's just the docs. I was unable to contact upstream, there is no email address and the mailing list is dead. I guess this will boil down to "all-rights-served" which is a bit weird though. (In reply to comment #4) > I was unable to contact upstream, there is no email address and the mailing > list is dead. > > I guess this will boil down to "all-rights-served" which is a bit weird > though. Upstream is CC'd on this bug report. Any news? If not, I'll change the ebuild to "all-rights-reserved" and add mirror and bindist restrictions. Oh, hey, whoops, someone still cares about this monstrosity. Right. As the original author and sole contributor, I hereby release MGM to the public domain. I shall be adding a notice to that effect to the source repository immediately. Please, please, please don't make me fix bugs in it though. (In reply to comment #7) > As the original author and sole contributor, I hereby release MGM to the > public domain. I shall be adding a notice to that effect to the source > repository immediately. Thank you. + 24 Apr 2013; Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> mgm-1.2.ebuild: + Fix LICENSE, released into the public domain, bug 446782. + |