Bug 447390

Summary:	dev-libs/luise-bin: wrong use of "as-is" license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lcd, licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	436214
Attachments:	E-mail from Mathias Wallbraun

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-15 18:45:14 UTC

The ebuild is currently marked "as-is" which seems to be wrong:
- No license for the binary libraries is included in the package
- No license information on HOMEPAGE
- Some files have the following line in their header:
  "libluise is freeware. it uses libusb and based on libftdi from
  intra2net.com ."
  What is meant by "freeware" is not being defined.
- samples/luise-test/luise-test.c is licensed GPL-2+

We may need a clarification from upstream if we are allowed to redistribute the distfile.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-06 20:02:39 UTC

Created attachment 347544 [details]
E-mail from Mathias Wallbraun

Upstream has given permission to distribute this under the BSD license.