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Bug 450932

Summary: dev-perl/TermReadKey license
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ben Sagal <bensagal>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: licenses
Priority: Normal Keywords: QAcanfix
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 436214    

Description Ben Sagal 2013-01-08 19:06:36 UTC
the readme for dev-perl/TermReadKey contains the following text:

 Copyright (C) 1994-1999 Kenneth Albanowski. 
               2001-2005 Jonathan Stowe and others
 
 Unlimited distribution and/or modification is allowed as long as this 
 copyright notice remains intact.

This does not seem to contain any as-is clause, so is as-is the right license.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-01-08 23:10:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> the readme for dev-perl/TermReadKey contains the following text:
> 
>  Copyright (C) 1994-1999 Kenneth Albanowski. 
>                2001-2005 Jonathan Stowe and others
>  
>  Unlimited distribution and/or modification is allowed as long as this 
>  copyright notice remains intact.

This was already discussed between two members of the licenses team. The conclusion was that we aren't happy about license proliferation, but the best we can do here is to add the above as "TermReadKey" license.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-01-27 12:07:01 UTC
Fixed.
Thanks for reporting.