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Bug 446154 - net-dialup/capidivert: unclear license
Summary: net-dialup/capidivert: unclear license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Stefan Briesenick (RETIRED)
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: UPSTREAM
Depends on:
Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2012-12-05 20:35 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2013-05-08 16:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Answer from Kai Germaschewski (capidivert.mail,4.44 KB, text/plain)
2013-05-08 12:30 UTC, Ulrich Müller 		Details
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-12-05 20:35:20 UTC 
The ebuild currently has LICENSE="as-is" which most likely is wrong.

This is a binary package, and there is no license included in the tarball. Also its HOMEPAGE doesn't help because it is dead.

Can you please ask upstream for clarification under with terms this package can be distributed?
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-12-05 20:39:29 UTC 
Sorry, I used the wrong template for filing the bug. This is not a binary package. (The rest was correct, though.)
Comment 2 Stefan Briesenick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-01-24 21:19:45 UTC 
well, there's neither a license header within the source, nor a seperate file. It's quite old, but still works fine.

The only thing i remember was "source as-is". nothing else.

hmmm...
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-05-08 05:14:20 UTC 
According to the homepage archived at archive.org, the author of this package is Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>.
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-05-08 05:31:47 UTC 
Mail sent.
Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-05-08 12:30:03 UTC 
Created attachment 347746 [details]
Answer from Kai Germaschewski
Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-05-08 16:57:17 UTC 
Upstream has confirmed in a second e-mail message that this can be distributed under GPL-2+.