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Bug 701552 - app-text/info2html has no license, but says "freedist"
Summary: app-text/info2html has no license, but says "freedist"
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers
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Blocks: freedist-license
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Reported: 2019-11-30 13:16 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2019-12-10 15:35 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-11-30 13:16:25 UTC
There is no license included in the package's tarball, neither in file headers, nor in README. The homepage at http://info2html.sourceforge.net/ doesn't specify any license either.

The ebuild should be updated to LICENSE="all-rights-reserved", along with mirror and bindist restrictions.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-11-30 13:20:34 UTC
Also, modification isn't allowed, so there shouldn't be any patches applied.
Comment 2 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev 2019-11-30 17:51:56 UTC
While there is no license listed in the package, there's one on the sourceforge page, which says GPL 2:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/info2html/

It looks like the sourceforge page was created by the person creating that code. IANAL but that looks good enough to me to consider it being GPL-2. If people feel uneasy about this we can also try to contact the author to clarify.
Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2019-11-30 18:48:16 UTC
(In reply to Hanno Böck from comment #2)

The Sourceforge page says "Brought to you by: jonhowell, luis_pedro, torgox", which doesn't include the original author Karl Guggisberg (according to info2html's file header).

Also, the last commit in the CVS repository on Sourceforge is from 2003-05-24, and the info2html file in the repo says "LICENSE GPL", which was added on 2003-05-07. Whereas the last HISTORY entry in info2html-2.0.tar is from 2006-08-16. So the 2.0 tarball does not correspond to the latest commit in the repository.

Most notably, in the info2html file in the 2.0 tarball, the above-mentioned "LICENSE GPL" tag is no longer present.

Therefore I won't trust that GPL-2 label on Sourceforge.
Comment 4 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-12-06 19:46:36 UTC
Package removed.