505634 – games-fps/doom3-mitm wrong LICENSE

Bug 505634 - games-fps/doom3-mitm wrong LICENSE

Summary: games-fps/doom3-mitm wrong LICENSE

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Games

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Blocks:	as-is-license
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Reported:	2014-03-25 11:02 UTC by Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED)
Modified:	2014-04-04 12:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Alexander Berntsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-03-25 11:02:39 UTC

Looks like it should be all-rights-reserved.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 07:06:33 UTC

This is package.masked since 2008 for security reasons.
@Games team, do you want to keep this package?

Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2014-04-03 09:54:27 UTC

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> This is package.masked since 2008 for security reasons.
> @Games team, do you want to keep this package?

do you have an alternative game? -.-

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 10:35:57 UTC

(In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #2)
> do you have an alternative game? -.-

Certainly not. See bug 505778 comment #3.

I suggest that we go for all-rights-reserved then, plus mirror restriction.

Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 17:37:19 UTC

all-rights-reserved doesn't imply a mirror restriction.  Show someplace where it says we're not allowed to mirror things.

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 17:58:44 UTC

(In reply to Mr. Bones. from comment #4)
> all-rights-reserved doesn't imply a mirror restriction.

Sure it does.

> Show someplace where it says we're not allowed to mirror things.

Unfortunately, copyright law doesn't work like this. Without a license (or permission from the copyright holder), we are not allowed to redistribute the distfile.

For example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Exclusive_rights for an explanation.

Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 18:42:22 UTC

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #5)
> (In reply to Mr. Bones. from comment #4)
> > all-rights-reserved doesn't imply a mirror restriction.
> 
> Sure it does.

Just saying it does doesn't make it true.

> > Show someplace where it says we're not allowed to mirror things.
> 
> Unfortunately, copyright law doesn't work like this. Without a license (or
> permission from the copyright holder), we are not allowed to redistribute
> the distfile.
> 
> For example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Exclusive_rights for
> an explanation.

right below that is a section on Fair Use.

The creators of these mods upload them to file mirroring sites for express purpose of getting their content out.  Not mirroring them ourselves just means the packages die off.  Pretty soon you don't have any mods from more than a year or two left.

Comment 7 Julian Ospald 2014-04-03 18:49:09 UTC

(In reply to Mr. Bones. from comment #6)
>
> right below that is a section on Fair Use.
> 

"Fair Use" depends on the country. Where are our servers located at?

Comment 8 Julian Ospald 2014-04-03 19:01:38 UTC

anyhow, mirror restriction is already set:

# grep RESTRICT /usr/portage/eclass/games-mods.eclass 
RESTRICT="mirror strip"

Comment 9 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 19:56:13 UTC

+  03 Apr 2014; Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> doom3-mitm-20070129.ebuild:
+  Fix LICENSE, bug 505634.
+