447390 – dev-libs/luise-bin: wrong use of "as-is" license

Bug 447390 - dev-libs/luise-bin: wrong use of "as-is" license

Summary: dev-libs/luise-bin: wrong use of "as-is" license

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Blocks:	as-is-license
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Reported:	2012-12-15 18:45 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2013-05-06 20:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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E-mail from Mathias Wallbraun (libluise.mail,3.69 KB, text/plain) 2013-05-06 20:02 UTC, Ulrich Müller	Details
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2012-12-15 18:45:14 UTC

The ebuild is currently marked "as-is" which seems to be wrong:
- No license for the binary libraries is included in the package
- No license information on HOMEPAGE
- Some files have the following line in their header:
  "libluise is freeware. it uses libusb and based on libftdi from
  intra2net.com ."
  What is meant by "freeware" is not being defined.
- samples/luise-test/luise-test.c is licensed GPL-2+

We may need a clarification from upstream if we are allowed to redistribute the distfile.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2013-05-06 20:02:39 UTC

Created attachment 347544 [details]
E-mail from Mathias Wallbraun

Upstream has given permission to distribute this under the BSD license.