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Bug 694938

Summary: Amazon license looks BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Licenses team <licenses>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-09-19 08:42:16 UTC
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/licenses/Amazon

Apparently the license is non-free becaus of 3.3.  However, looking at 2.1 + 3.1, it seems to permit binary redistribution.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-09-19 17:16:34 UTC
I concur with both. It is non-free because of the usage restriction, but should qualify for @B-R.
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2019-09-19 19:38:07 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=70561bd157eccc1a50353ac2c62e41c56ea95775

commit 70561bd157eccc1a50353ac2c62e41c56ea95775
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2019-09-19 19:36:38 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2019-09-19 19:36:38 +0000

    profiles: Add Amazon to BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE license group.
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/694938
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 profiles/license_groups | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)