The license looks weirdish to me: === 2. You may freely reproduce and distribute verbatim copies of the Program in any medium, provided that recipients of such copies are given a copy of this License. Verbatim copies are covered by the terms of this License. 3. You may modify the Program and freely distribute your modified version(s), provided that you distribute it under the terms of this License. Recipients of any modified version(s) should be provided with a copy of this License. 4. You shall treat those parts of the Program that were provided to you in executable or object code only as the proprietary and confidential information of AVASYS Corporation and its Licensor(s). === The iscan-plugin* packages download prebuilt .rpms with the driver. In regards to point 4. there, does that mean we can or can't redistribute them?
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #0) > The iscan-plugin* packages download prebuilt .rpms with the driver. In > regards to point 4. there, does that mean we can or can't redistribute them? Do we have their source code, too?
Nope, at least not in what's in SRC_URI. But I suppose maintainers may know more, if there are any.
Basically, clauses 2 and 3 are BSD-like, and for binaries there are clauses 4 and 5 in addition which (try to) prohibit reverse engineering. I think we can add it to @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE because redistribution is allowed by clause 2, but clauses 4 and 5 make it non-free. Disclaimer: IANAL, TINLA.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5c62f1eda1477d5def523367e73bece3e6bd7593 commit 5c62f1eda1477d5def523367e73bece3e6bd7593 Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-01-25 11:30:06 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-01-25 11:30:06 +0000 profiles: Add AVASYS to BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE license group. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/694934 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> profiles/license_groups | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
