164353 – app-arch/unace wrong license

Bug 164353 - app-arch/unace wrong license

Summary: app-arch/unace wrong license

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92846

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	SpanKY

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Reported:	2007-01-29 05:33 UTC by a thing
Modified:	2007-01-30 04:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description a thing 2007-01-29 05:33:29 UTC

Gentoo says app-arch/unace is under the GPL-2, but the archive the ebuild downloads says:

the source may be distributed and used, 
but I,Marcel Lemke, retain ownership of
the copyrights to the source.
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WWW:
 http://members.aol.com/mlemke6413/ace
EMAIL:
 mlemke6413@aol.com

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Krzysztof Kozlowski 2007-01-29 18:31:28 UTC

Yep, licence file from:
http://www.winace.com/files/linunace25.tgz
says:
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Linux unace is provided free, "as-is". You may freely copy the program.
Distribution is permitted within this original package only.

 Copyright by Marcel Lemke, Ace Compression Software
---------------------
So the license should be something like "UnACE"?

Comment 2 a thing 2007-01-30 03:06:32 UTC

1. That's not the package the ebuild uses, but it's not the GGPL either.
2. Yes, it should have its own license label (personally I'd prefer that this and all other nonfree packages be removed from the portage tree, but I doubt that'll happen anytime soon).

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-01-30 03:58:25 UTC

fixed in cvs

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-01-30 04:04:59 UTC

actually, it is correct as GPL-2

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-01-30 04:05:09 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 92846 ***