As far as I can see, the license of this package is non-free, because it doesn't grant the right to do modifications. According to DISCLAIMER: This material was originally written and compiled by Wolfgang Ley and Uwe Ellermann at the DFN-CERT, Germany, in 1995-96 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that this entire copyright notice is duplicated in all such copies. This software is provided "as is" and without any expressed or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. However, the program links with src/regex.[ch] which are GPL licensed (version 2 or later). Therefore, redistribution of the resulting binary isn't allowed. LICENSE="freedist GPL-2+" might be a good enough approximation. Alternatively, instead of freedist, the above snippet could be added as a new license file.
Upstream has clarified that the next release will be BSD licensed: From: Kerry Thompson <kerry@crypt.gen.nz> To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> Cc: <drusus@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: logsurfer license? Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:32:38 +1300 Hi Ulrich The DISCLAIMER file has been included in the tarball by mistake and should be ignored. We are preparing a release which replaces the DISCLAIMER with a modified-BSD license which permits modification. Regards, Kerry On 23.11.2012 12:14, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > I thought that you should be aware of this downstream bug: > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444330> > > The DISCLAIMER in the logsurfer tarball seems to permit > redistribution > and use, but no modification. This would mean that it doesn't conform > to the Free Software definition. OTOH, the Sourceforge page says that > the package is BSD licensed. > > Could you please clarify? > > Thanks, > Ulrich
(In reply to comment #1) > Upstream has clarified that the next release will be BSD licensed: Five months later, I don't see any sign of it in the upstream git repo. So I've marked the ebuild with "freedist GPL-2+", for the time being.
