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Bug 465274 - net-libs/socket++: LICENSE should be "freedist GPL-2+", needs RESTRICT="bindist"
Summary: net-libs/socket++: LICENSE should be "freedist GPL-2+", needs RESTRICT="bindist"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: C++ Team [disbanded]
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Keywords: QAcanfix
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Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2013-04-09 15:01 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2013-04-17 17:59 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-04-09 15:01:46 UTC
COPYING and headers of source files says:

   Copyright (C) 1992-1996 Gnanasekaran Swaminathan <gs4t@virginia.edu>

   Permission is granted to use at your own risk and distribute this
   software in source and binary forms provided the above copyright
   notice and this paragraph are preserved on all copies. This software
   is provided "as is" with no express or implied warranty.

Note that the right to make modifications is not granted, so this is non-free. A similar notice is in socket++.texi:

   Copyright (C) 1992,1993,1994 Gnanasekaran Swaminathan <gs4t@virginia.edu>

   Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
   document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
   are preserved on all copies.

Again, only verbatim copies allowed. IMHO, we can subsume all this under the "freedist" catch-all.

In addition, some files carry a GPL-2 or later license notice. Since non-free and GPLed code are combined in one binary, redistribution is not allowed, so bindist restriction is needed.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-04-17 17:59:54 UTC
Fixed.