Bug 465112

Summary:	media-sound/snd: specify LICENSE more precisely
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
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
Attachments:	licenses/Snd

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-08 14:39:04 UTC

Created attachment 344848 [details]
licenses/Snd

The main license of the package is found in in COPYING, see attachment. I suggest to add it as licenses/Snd. AFAICS, it is a free software license (very similar to the "tcltk" license) and therefore can be added to the MISC-FREE group.

In addition, all of the following are needed, see notices in individual files: BSD-2, HPND, GPL-2+, LGPL-2.1+, and LGPL-3+ (the latter only for snd-12*).

Unfortunately, files dlocsig.rb (installed with USE=ruby), and dlocsig.scm (installed with USE=s7) contain an additional non-commercial restriction that makes them non-free:

    Copyright (c) 92, 93, 94, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 Fernando Lopez Lezcano. 
    All rights reserved.
    Use and copying of this software and preparation of derivative works
    based upon this software are permitted and may be copied as long as 
    no fees or compensation are charged for use, copying, or accessing
    this software and all copies of this software include this copyright
    notice. Suggestions, comments and bug reports are welcome. Please 
    address email to: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu

IMHO, "free-noncomm" is a good enough approximation for this.

So in summary, LICENSE should be as follows:
snd-9.11: "Snd BSD-2 HPND GPL-2+ LGPL-2.1+ free-noncomm"
snd-12*: "Snd BSD-2 HPND GPL-2+ LGPL-2.1+ LGPL-3+ ruby? ( free-noncomm ) s7? ( free-noncomm )"

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-04-17 18:23:50 UTC

Fixed.