556508 – x11-apps/xwarppointer no open source license upstream

Bug 556508 - x11-apps/xwarppointer no open source license upstream

Summary: x11-apps/xwarppointer no open source license upstream

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current 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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Reported:	2015-08-02 15:41 UTC by Jonas Stein
Modified:	2015-08-03 22:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2015-08-02 15:41:16 UTC

No proper license for this package could be found in the source package (upstream)

The ebuild is set to LICENSE=BSD.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2015-08-02 18:10:10 UTC

There are three possible solutions (ordered by what would be my preference):
1. Contact the upstream author and ask what the package's license is.
2. Change to LICENSE="all-rights-reserved" and add RESTRICT="mirror bindist".
3. Remove the package. (Last upstream release was 15 years ago, no reverse dependencies, no Gentoo maintainer. It still builds and seems to work just fine, though.)

For a start, I've sent an e-mail message to the author.

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2015-08-03 22:07:05 UTC

Created attachment 408226 [details]
e-mail message from upstream

License is MIT, see attached reply from upstream.

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2015-08-03 22:13:45 UTC

Fixed in xwarppointer-1-r2.ebuild.