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Bug 448410 - dev-ml/lablgtk: unclear license for examples
Summary: dev-ml/lablgtk: unclear license for examples
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Team for the ML programming language family
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Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2012-12-24 14:11 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2017-05-11 15:52 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-12-24 14:11:44 UTC
COPYING says:

   For the examples subdirectory, there is no specific licensing policy,
   but you may freely take inspiration from the code, and copy parts of
   it in your application.

This definitely isn't "as-is", and it's not clear to me if it's even free. (For example, it is not clear if distribution of such applications containing parts of the examples would be allowed.)
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-06-02 15:35:20 UTC
I've added the snippet from example file headers as "lablgtk-examples" license.
Comment 2 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-05-10 17:59:06 UTC
Debian consider this license free, what to do?
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/lablgtk2/lablgtk2_2.18.3+dfsg-2_copyright
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2017-05-11 15:52:17 UTC
(In reply to Alessandro Barbieri from comment #2)
> Debian consider this license free, what to do?
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/lablgtk2/lablgtk2_2.18.3+dfsg-2_copyright

Have they discussed it anywhere publicly visible?

I just don't see how we could add this "license" (if it even is one) to @FREE, as it doesn't grant the four freedoms.