From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPDgg-0000vB-9u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:22:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65339E07B6; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.39]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9D0E07B6 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from epia.jer-c2.orkz.net (atwork-106.r-212.178.112.atwork.nl [212.178.112.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nBSBLucp012616; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:21:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jer@gentoo.org) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:21:46 +0100 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: vincent@doublecreations.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo Message-ID: <20091228122146.3f9b6460@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <4B3843E2.90800@doublecreations.com> References: <4B3843E2.90800@doublecreations.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Archives-Salt: b0cf32b2-6403-43ed-b316-e63c0b12e55d X-Archives-Hash: 6e8e78935a9cc8f1b9e99e95f076f421 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:36:34 -0500 Vincent Launchbury wrote: > Also relating to this, what is freedist? The package app-text/dos2unix > lists 'freedist' as its license, and /usr/portage/licenses/freedist > says only "Freely Distributable". Several other packages do this, and > I'm sure it's not correct. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the > dos2unix package is from http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/, > which clearly says its GPLv2. Packages like this could be looked into > and fixed. No, that would be app-text/tofrodos (see bug #225903 [1] for details - some of the confusion over where the app-text/dos2unix sources originated was discussed there). Regards, jer [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225903