The ebuild claims LICENSE="as-is" which doesn't seem to be right. I cannot find any copyright notice or terms for distribution, neither in the tarball nor on the package's homepage. Can you please sort out (possibly with upstream) under what terms this package can be distributed?
seems it's simply unlicensed then, no? At least those tarballs
(In reply to comment #1) > seems it's simply unlicensed then, no? At least those tarballs That's well possible. Unfortunately, copyright law works in a way that "unlicensed" means "all rights reserved". But maybe we should wait for the trustees' decision in bug 444424.
doc/index.html: [...] MGM, Xiphophorus and their logos are trademarks (tm) of <a href="http://www.xiph.org/">Xiphophorus</a>. These pages are copyright (C) 1994-1999 Xiphophorus. All rights reserved.<p> But that's just the docs.
I was unable to contact upstream, there is no email address and the mailing list is dead. I guess this will boil down to "all-rights-served" which is a bit weird though.
(In reply to comment #4) > I was unable to contact upstream, there is no email address and the mailing > list is dead. > > I guess this will boil down to "all-rights-served" which is a bit weird > though. Upstream is CC'd on this bug report.
Any news? If not, I'll change the ebuild to "all-rights-reserved" and add mirror and bindist restrictions.
Oh, hey, whoops, someone still cares about this monstrosity. Right. As the original author and sole contributor, I hereby release MGM to the public domain. I shall be adding a notice to that effect to the source repository immediately. Please, please, please don't make me fix bugs in it though.
(In reply to comment #7) > As the original author and sole contributor, I hereby release MGM to the > public domain. I shall be adding a notice to that effect to the source > repository immediately. Thank you. + 24 Apr 2013; Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> mgm-1.2.ebuild: + Fix LICENSE, released into the public domain, bug 446782. +
