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Bug 615486 - app-misc/sl add license
Summary: app-misc/sl add license
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Patrice Clement
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Reported: 2017-04-13 21:15 UTC by Alessandro Barbieri
Modified: 2017-04-20 09:12 UTC (History)
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Description Alessandro Barbieri 2017-04-13 21:15:38 UTC 
From https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/blob/master/LICENSE the license states:

Copyright 1993,1998,2014 Toyoda Masashi (mtoyoda@acm.org)

Everyone is permitted to do anything on this program including copying,
modifying, and improving, unless you try to pretend that you wrote it.
i.e., the above copyright notice has to appear in all copies.
THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE.

If fits in the FREE-MISC license group, can be added to it?
IMHO (and IANAL) respects the GNU philosophy
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2017-04-16 13:20:36 UTC 
It doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.
Comment 2 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-04-16 15:48:55 UTC 
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> It doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.

I filed a bug upstream
https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/issues/52
Comment 3 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-04-18 13:58:19 UTC 
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1)
> It doesn't allow distribution of modified versions.

Author confirmed that this license allows distribution of modified code.

see

https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl/issues/52#issuecomment-294778695
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2017-04-20 09:12:07 UTC 
I have committed a new license "Toyoda" and added it to MISC-FREE. I have also updated LICENSE of the package.

Thanks for reporting!