[gentoo-dev] Which license?

[gentoo-dev] Which license?

[A. Khattri]

Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:


## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
##
## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
## It is provided solely "as is".  The author(s) disclaim(s) all
## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or
## anything else.
##


Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
/usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?

[Donnie Berkholz]

A. Khattri wrote:
> 
> Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
> The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:
> 
> 
> ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
> ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
> ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.

I grepped /usr/portage/licenses/ for the typo in this license -- 
"non-commerical" -- and came up with /usr/portage/licenses/XAnim, which 
very closely resembles this one. The only difference is the addition of 
"and unmodified.." which I think is implied by intact.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:21 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> 
> Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
> The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:
> 
> 
> ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
> ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
> ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
> ##
> ## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
> ## It is provided solely "as is".  The author(s) disclaim(s) all
> ## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
> ## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or
> ## anything else.
> ##
> 
> 
> Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
> /usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?

You make a new one for this package, since it specifically says,
"provided that this license remains intact and unmodified with any
distribution" which would mean their copyright information, too.  Yeah,
it sucks, but that's life.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?

[Albert Hopkins]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:21 -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> 
> Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
> The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:
> 
> 
> ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
> ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
> ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
> ##
> ## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
> ## It is provided solely "as is".  The author(s) disclaim(s) all
> ## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
> ## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or
> ## anything else.
> ##
> 
> 
> Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
> /usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?

I'd go for AS-IS.



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?

[Tavis Ormandy]

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On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:21:38PM -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> ## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
> ## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
> ## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
> 
> Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
> /usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?

free-noncomm looks like a good match.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Which license?

[Alin Nastac]

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A. Khattri wrote:

>Im working on an ebuild for a package and Im not sure what license to use.
>The package is Copyright Company "X" but has this underneath:
>
>
>## This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
>## without fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this license
>## remains intact and unmodified with any distribution.
>##
>## There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
>## It is provided solely "as is".  The author(s) disclaim(s) all
>## responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
>## or its effect upon hardware, computer systems, other software, or
>## anything else.
>##
>
>
>Last time I looked, there were some 800 or so files in
>/usr/portage/license/ - so which one would I use?
>
>
>  
>
LICENSE="as-is" ?

IANAL


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