Bug 445828 – app-vim/nagios-syntax: unclear license

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2012-12-03 18:47:29 UTC]

There is no license information in these packages.

@ramereth: You are listed as upstream maintainer for both. Can you clarify under which terms they are distributed?

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2013-05-01 10:45:30 UTC]

Looks like cfengine-syntax originates from here:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=329
So we could change LICENSE to vim.org for it.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2013-05-17 08:14:44 UTC]

I've marked cfengine-syntax with LICENSE="vim.org".

This leaves us with nagios-syntax. According to the information in its header, original author is Ava Arachne Jarvis <[e-mail]>.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-03 08:41:30 UTC]

Ping. Any news here?

Without a license, we're not allowed to distribute the tarball.

[Comment 4 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-14 12:23:18 UTC]

Given that nagios-syntax is also available at vim.org, I suggest that we change the ebuild as follows:

HOMEPAGE="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2261"
LICENSE="vim.org"

Looks like the version at vim.org is newer, so eventually the version could be bumped.

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2014-04-16 07:00:25 UTC]

Fixed.

I've filed bug 507786 for the version bump.