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Bug 612982 - net-print/xerox-drivers - suspect LICENSE
Summary: net-print/xerox-drivers - suspect LICENSE
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: 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: 2017-03-18 08:19 UTC by Michael Palimaka (kensington)
Modified: 2018-01-03 15:15 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev 2017-03-18 08:19:27 UTC
From the ebuild:

LICENSE="public-domain"

I doubt that's correct, and judging by the scary-looking EULA at $HOMEPAGE I wonder if we should ship this package at all.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2017-03-18 08:50:19 UTC
This package came from Sunrise, where it was labelled with a "Xerox" license:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise.git/commit/?id=7aa3b8710ece1606e5471494a8b38380c79dd132

No idea why this was lost when the package was moved to the main tree.

We definitely need fetch and bindist restrictions here.
Comment 3 Matthew Schultz 2018-01-02 16:03:47 UTC
Why was a fetch restrict added?  Why wouldn't ACCEPT_LICENSE suffice?  There is no mirror restriction or anything other than just accepting the license that bars the ebuild from downloading the package.
Comment 4 Matthew Schultz 2018-01-02 16:07:45 UTC
I digress, it does appear there is a mirror restriction in the license.  So why not just restrict it to mirror?
Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2018-01-02 22:36:18 UTC
(In reply to Matthew Schultz from comment #3)
> Why was a fetch restrict added?

If you look at ${HOMEPAGE}, you'll find that the download is behind an "accept license" button. Our standard practice is then to add fetch restriction to the ebuild. We won't bypass upstream's acceptance mechanism by deep-linking to the download page (even if it would be trivial, as in this case).