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Bug 445756 - sys-boot/getdvhoff, sys-boot/sgibootcd: unclear license
Summary: sys-boot/getdvhoff, sys-boot/sgibootcd: unclear license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: MIPS Linux
: Low trivial (vote)
Assignee: MIPS Porters
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Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2012-12-03 08:58 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2014-02-03 09:12 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-12-03 08:58:44 UTC
These two packages share a common tarball. The ebuilds currently have LICENSE="as-is" which most likely is wrong.

There is no license included in the package's tarball, and the HOMEPAGE is dead.
Comment 1 Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev 2012-12-14 09:28:49 UTC
These are two small utilities used for SGI LiveCDs (whenever I get around to creating them again).  Both were written by Stanislaw Skowronek, the SGI Octane port author, mainly as an experiment many years ago (~2006?).  Very likely, the license is GPLv2, but he's virtually dropped off of the internet, so I have no way of verifying.  Thus, "as-is" is the most appropriate license I can think of that still applies.

Not sure what to do about $HOMEPAGE.  I'll have to check and see if there's another copy of it somewhere.
Comment 2 Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev 2014-01-19 07:49:13 UTC
Marking as CANTFIX.  The licenses will have to stay "as-is" for now since I don't know how to get a hold of the original author to verify what license he released his code under.  If I ever spot him on IRC again, I'll try to remember to ask.
Comment 3 Julian Ospald 2014-01-19 12:49:57 UTC
no, as-is is wrong

if there is no valid license information, then you have to assume that the user has no rights, as in "all-rights-reserved"
Comment 4 Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev 2014-02-03 09:12:34 UTC
Changed the license in both ebuilds to "all-rights-reserved".