Re: [gentoo-dev] package with funny licence

[Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:02:31 +1000
Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The whole license is especially completely unintelligeable. Is one
> actually allowed to distribute/modify/use the software at all? It is
> probably best to dump the package.

1) Again, it's not a license. It's a copyright notice with a couple
of jokes attached. It contains no statement granting anyone anything
with regard to the copyright of the materials it is attached to. Ask
your lawyer.

2) Ulrich didn't mention a category/package or that said package is
in the tree already, so there probably isn't anything to "dump" at this
stage.

3) Why go overboard and be all negative like that (as to suggest dumping
the package)? Asking the copyright owner of the package is probably the
best thing to do even if you do not intend to distribute the
copyrighted materials and just want to know where you legally stand,
*regardless* of whether the package is in the tree or not.


Kind regards,
     JeR
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