From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package with funny licence
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:02:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707042202.31726.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070703190152.66063bfe@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net>
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 03:01:52 Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:21:12 +0200
>
> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Today I stumbled over a package that has the following funny "licence"
> > in its file headers:
> >
> > ;; Bozoup(P) 1995 The Bozo(tic) Softwar(e) Founda(t)ion, Inc.
> > ;; See the BOZO Antipasto for further information.
> > ;; If this is useful to you, may you forever be blessed by the Holy
> > Lord ;; Patty. AT&T you will.
>
> That's not a license, it's a copyright notice with added fluff.
>
> > The package was marked as GPL-2 but I think this does not really hit
> > the spot. ;-)
>
> If I were you, I would ask the author and not simply label it as-is.
> GPL-2 it definitely isn't.
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.
Paul
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-03 10:21 [gentoo-dev] package with funny licence Ulrich Mueller
2007-07-03 17:01 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-07-04 12:02 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2007-07-04 14:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-07-04 19:58 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-07-05 16:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-07-04 19:51 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeroen Roovers
2007-07-06 6:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-01-16 23:26 ` [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emacs/uboat (was: Re: package with funny licence) Ulrich Mueller
2008-01-25 0:39 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: app-emacs/uboat Ulrich Mueller
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