Bug 450454 – games-misc/fortune-mod-humorixfortunes: wrong use of "as-is" license

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Ulrich Müller 2013-01-05 20:30:56 UTC]

This package is currently labelled as-is which doesn't look right.

There is no license included with the package.
http://humorix.org/downloads/#Fortunes boldly states:

   The cookies come from public domain sources (i.e. files that have circulated
   throughout the Net), Slashdot posts, and, of course, the Humorix site.

But neither "files that have circulated throughout the net" nor "Slashdot posts" are necessarily in the public domain.

Not sure what to do here. Maybe "freedist" for humorix-stories (which seems to be the stuff from the Humorix site) and "fairuse" for humorix-misc?

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2013-01-12 08:36:04 UTC]

Fixed.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2020-03-11 07:24:18 UTC]

Looking at my assessment from seven years ago again, it is doubtful at best, therefore reopening.

Any objections to last rites?

[Comment 3 James Le Cuirot 2020-03-11 19:54:14 UTC]

Do it.

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2020-03-11 22:14:13 UTC]

# Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]> (2020-03-11)
# No license. HOMEPAGE is gone.
# Masked for removal in 14 days. Bug #450454.
games-misc/fortune-mod-humorixfortunes

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2020-03-11 22:25:03 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2)
> Looking at my assessment from seven years ago again, it is doubtful at best,

To be more specific:

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #0)
> This package is currently labelled as-is which doesn't look right.
> 
> There is no license included with the package.
> http://humorix.org/downloads/#Fortunes boldly states:
> 
>    The cookies come from public domain sources (i.e. files that have
>    circulated throughout the Net), Slashdot posts, and, of course, the
>    Humorix site.
> 
> But neither "files that have circulated throughout the net" nor "Slashdot
> posts" are necessarily in the public domain.

I still believe that up to here my assessment was correct.

> Not sure what to do here. Maybe "freedist" for humorix-stories (which seems
> to be the stuff from the Humorix site) and "fairuse" for humorix-misc?

This was a half-baked solution, though.

[Comment 6 Larry the Git Cow 2020-03-25 10:11:25 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bcd6fbc8d7f1b5b27f65de1eed14bcb04e61c9e4

commit bcd6fbc8d7f1b5b27f65de1eed14bcb04e61c9e4
Author:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2020-03-25 10:09:23 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2020-03-25 10:09:23 +0000

    games-misc/fortune-mod-humorixfortunes: Remove package.
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/450454
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <[e-mail]>

 games-misc/fortune-mod-humorixfortunes/Manifest    |  1 -
 .../fortune-mod-humorixfortunes-1.4-r1.ebuild      | 23 ----------------------
 .../fortune-mod-humorixfortunes/metadata.xml       |  8 --------
 3 files changed, 32 deletions(-)