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Bug 470778 - sci-biology/trf: no visible license
Summary: sci-biology/trf: no visible license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Science Biology related packages
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Blocks: as-is-license
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Reported: 2013-05-20 16:09 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2014-04-17 21:28 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2013-05-20 16:09:07 UTC
Split off from bug 465554.

The package is currently labelled "as-is", but I cannot find any license in its distfile or on its homepage.

Unless someone can provide information on its distribution terms, I suggest that we change it to LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" and add mirror and bindist restriction.
Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-05-20 17:38:14 UTC
mail sent.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-03-26 20:32:24 UTC
(In reply to Justin Lecher from comment #1)
> mail sent.

Any reply?
Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-03-27 07:09:21 UTC
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2)
> (In reply to Justin Lecher from comment #1)
> > mail sent.
> 
> Any reply?

Sadly no. Let's drop to to arr
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-04-14 07:59:41 UTC
I've found this:
http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.license.html

It doesn't give you any rights that you don't already have, but tries to take away some of them: "You may not de-compile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or modify the software." Presumably, this clause is not enforceable (but IANAL). In any case, I suggest that we add a new "trf" license file.

Questions to licenses team:
- Does this qualify for the EULA licenses group?
- The download page says: "Please read our License Terms before downloading."
  Do we need fetch restriction, or is mirror restriction sufficient?
Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-04-17 21:12:02 UTC
Fixed, LICENSE="trf" now. I had to update SRC_URI because upstream has dropped the .exe suffix. The checksum of the file is unchanged, though. (Renamed back to trf404.linux.exe in src_unpack, so that the name of the installed file doesn't change.)

Not added to @EULA, for the time being, because I don't see their "please read" as a requirement to read it (but IANAL). Feel free to reopen if you disagree.
Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2014-04-17 21:14:50 UTC
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #5)
> Not added to @EULA, for the time being, because I don't see their "please
> read" as a requirement to read it (but IANAL). Feel free to reopen if you
> disagree.

For the same reason, only mirror restriction but no fetch restriction.
Comment 7 Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-04-17 21:28:36 UTC
I agree completely with Ulrich.