Bug 618140

Summary:	app-arch/undms wrong (?) license
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonas Stein <jstein>
Component:	Current 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 WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	chewi, lssndrbarbieri, mgorny, mjo, treecleaner
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618130
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2017-05-10 20:12:53 UTC

The license in the ebuild is freedist but can't find a license upstream.
This license should be changed to all-right-reserved.

see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285233


Upstream is dead
The ebuild has no maintainer.
Could not see any license information. 

If you are interested in this package, please contact the author and fork it, if legal. This ebuild would be a candidate for tree cleaning if it can not be fixed.

Comment 1 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2017-05-11 22:56:46 UTC

I don't think we should be redistributing this without a license. I've masked it for removal and sent the announcement.

Comment 2 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2017-05-12 08:44:06 UTC

The license issue aside, I was considering picking this up as it is a file format I have some history with. Some searching revealed that FreeBSD talked about removing it for the same reason but there is an alternative called xdms, which we also have in the tree.

Comment 3 Michael Orlitzky gentoo-dev

2017-05-12 14:05:59 UTC

Chewi, I don't have any particular interest in this, I just saw that they were

  a) maintainer-needed
  b) not used by any other packages
  c) unlicensed (all rights reserved, by default)

so I masked them and decided to go the extra mile and last rite them. If you have an interest in undms, feel free to take it and remove my mask. A license of "all rights reserved" is theoretically possible, but since the upstream host is dead, I don't see a way to mirror the source and get it to the users. This is the text of that license:

All rights reserved.

This package has an explicit "all rights reserved" clause, or comes
without any license, or only with a disclaimer. This means that you
have only the rights that are granted to you by law. If you have
lawfully acquired a copy of the program (e.g., by buying it or by
downloading it from the author's site) then in many legislations you
are allowed to compile it, run it, make a backup, and to patch it as
necessary, without permission from the copyright holder.

Redistribution of the program is not allowed.

Disclaimer: Presumably, the above applies to the United States and
countries in the European Union at least. However, it is your own
responsibility to obey your country's laws.

Comment 4 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2017-05-12 14:11:41 UTC

Sorry, I didn't word that well. I meant that it can go seeing as xdms serves as an alternative.

Comment 5 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-05-12 20:55:42 UTC

FIY the website is

http://aminet.net/package/misc/unix/undms-1.3.c.Z

Comment 6 Michał Górny archtester

2017-06-15 08:04:21 UTC

commit e6c0ec8ed61f8fe53ccc1229476856d2b867667b
Author:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 15 09:48:11 2017
Commit:     Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: Thu Jun 15 10:00:58 2017

    app-arch/undms: Remove last-rited pkg, #618140