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Bug 930993

Summary: sci-electronics/qelectrotech: bundled SingleApplication has a possible GPL incompatible restriction
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Alfred Wingate <parona>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: ionen, licenses
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://github.com/itay-grudev/SingleApplication/issues/171
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Description Alfred Wingate 2024-05-01 00:42:43 UTC
This project is bundled in many projects that may have GPL licenses.

The only package to my knowledge in ::gentoo that bundles this is sci-electronics/qelectrotech which even copied the restriction into their GPL-2 license.

> Permission is not granted to use this software or any of the associated files
> as sample data for the purposes of building machine learning models.

https://github.com/qelectrotech/qelectrotech-source-mirror/blob/master/LICENSE#L10...L11

Other projects where I've seen this bundled are notepadnext (GPL-3) and opentodolist (GPL-3) but these aren't packaged.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2024-05-01 06:50:26 UTC
Not sure if that's an additional restriction or merely a clarification, because such usage may already be prohibited by Sections 2.a) and 4. of GPL-2:

      a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
      stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.

    4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
  except as expressly provided under this License.
Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev 2024-05-01 11:41:35 UTC
fwiw this looks like one of these packages that got added to qt@g.o without any real reason beside "it uses Qt" and whenever I'd have went through these (haven't yet), I'd have dropped it to m-n.

So if there's any problems with this package, can just CC treecleaner as I don't think anyone in qt@ cares.
Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev 2024-05-01 12:07:31 UTC
(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #2)
> fwiw this looks like one of these packages that got added to qt@g.o without
> any real reason beside "it uses Qt" and whenever I'd have went through these
> (haven't yet), I'd have dropped it to m-n.
On that note, I may work checking what could drop to m-n today -- probably be a bit given need to check the background of each.