Summary: | app-text/info2html has no license, but says "freedist" | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ulrich Müller <ulm> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers <web-apps> |
Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | licenses |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697372 | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 702470 |
Description
Ulrich Müller
2019-11-30 13:16:25 UTC
Also, modification isn't allowed, so there shouldn't be any patches applied. While there is no license listed in the package, there's one on the sourceforge page, which says GPL 2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/info2html/ It looks like the sourceforge page was created by the person creating that code. IANAL but that looks good enough to me to consider it being GPL-2. If people feel uneasy about this we can also try to contact the author to clarify. (In reply to Hanno Böck from comment #2) The Sourceforge page says "Brought to you by: jonhowell, luis_pedro, torgox", which doesn't include the original author Karl Guggisberg (according to info2html's file header). Also, the last commit in the CVS repository on Sourceforge is from 2003-05-24, and the info2html file in the repo says "LICENSE GPL", which was added on 2003-05-07. Whereas the last HISTORY entry in info2html-2.0.tar is from 2006-08-16. So the 2.0 tarball does not correspond to the latest commit in the repository. Most notably, in the info2html file in the 2.0 tarball, the above-mentioned "LICENSE GPL" tag is no longer present. Therefore I won't trust that GPL-2 label on Sourceforge. Package removed. |