From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I63dd-0008G9-C4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:07:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l64C5f4C029518; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:05:41 GMT Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l64C2cJW025583 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:02:38 GMT Received: from oct.local.devrieze.net ([210.1.194.130]) by post.webmailer.de (fruni mo21) (RZmta 8.2) with ESMTP id 600ef3j649r3Tz for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:02:34 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package with funny licence Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:02:31 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <18058.8984.63918.143003@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20070703190152.66063bfe@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <20070703190152.66063bfe@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707042202.31726.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-RZG-AUTH: kl51CIkHMwISfnYDoiNJgMuHR/Blg5MDmwdH0Ia0PPOPtvsc0k7H31tk X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-Archives-Salt: 41d88c91-25ce-4433-864f-7b5395fe4491 X-Archives-Hash: 5beb3afe4a62953ef29531e655a10c70 On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 03:01:52 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:21:12 +0200 > > Ulrich Mueller 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list