| Summary: | license_groups: Review DUMB-0.9.3 for inclusion to MISC-FREE license group | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray> |
| Component: | Profiles | Assignee: | Licenses team <licenses> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/12178 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
William Breathitt Gray
2019-06-03 14:33:17 UTC
Just to clarify, are you asking for the existing DUMB-0.9.2 to be added to the @MISC-FREE group, or also for addition of version 0.9.3 (as found at the link target), for some current or future package? In DUMB-0.9.2, points 1 to 3 are almost identical to the ZLIB license which is in the GPL-COMPATIBLE group. (So I wonder why they didn't just use that. Instead, they chose to add nonsensical clauses and waste everyone's time.) @Licenses team: If you don't object, I am going to add this to the MISC-FREE group. (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1) > Just to clarify, are you asking for the existing DUMB-0.9.2 to be added to > the @MISC-FREE group, or also for addition of version 0.9.3 (as found at the > link target), for some current or future package? > > In DUMB-0.9.2, points 1 to 3 are almost identical to the ZLIB license which > is in the GPL-COMPATIBLE group. (So I wonder why they didn't just use that. > Instead, they chose to add nonsensical clauses and waste everyone's time.) > > @Licenses team: If you don't object, I am going to add this to the MISC-FREE > group. After looking through the the packages listing DUMB-0.9.2, I discovered none of the existing packages were released under the DUMB-0.9.2 license, but instead were all released under the DUMB-0.9.3 license. I've submitted a pull request to fix this: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/12178 Since all the packages are under the DUMB-0.9.3 license, this is the license I believe should be added to MISC-FREE. (In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1) > is in the GPL-COMPATIBLE group. (So I wonder why they didn't just use that. > Instead, they chose to add nonsensical clauses and waste everyone's time.) > Agreed > @Licenses team: If you don't object, I am going to add this to the MISC-FREE > group. Except annoyed by the nonsense in general, I don't see anything substantial that would prohibit including this in the MISC-FREE license group. The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=539e179b4fd4c5ad041cd17d4df8b2dfbde6179e commit 539e179b4fd4c5ad041cd17d4df8b2dfbde6179e Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-06-04 14:03:55 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-06-04 14:03:55 +0000 profiles: Add DUMB-0.9.3 to MISC-FREE license group. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/687274 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> profiles/license_groups | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) |
