Bug 615486

Summary:	app-misc/sl add license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alessandro Barbieri <lssndrbarbieri>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrice Clement <monsieurp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Alessandro Barbieri 2017-04-13 21:15:38 UTC

From https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/blob/master/LICENSE the license states:

Copyright 1993,1998,2014 Toyoda Masashi (mtoyoda@acm.org)

Everyone is permitted to do anything on this program including copying,
modifying, and improving, unless you try to pretend that you wrote it.
i.e., the above copyright notice has to appear in all copies.
THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE.

If fits in the FREE-MISC license group, can be added to it?
IMHO (and IANAL) respects the GNU philosophy

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-04-16 13:20:36 UTC

It doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.

Comment 2 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-04-16 15:48:55 UTC

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> It doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.

I filed a bug upstream
https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/issues/52

Comment 3 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-04-18 13:58:19 UTC

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> It doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.

Author confirmed that this license allows distribution of modified code.

see

https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/issues/52#issuecomment-294778695

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-04-20 09:12:07 UTC

I have committed a new license "Toyoda" and added it to MISC-FREE. I have also updated LICENSE of the package.

Thanks for reporting!