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 1I65t8-0006b9-35 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:31:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l64ETeEk002685; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:29:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l64ERILi032389 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:27:19 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB0B6504B for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:27:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.429 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.429 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.824, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.253] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5O-Psgu4PmJ4 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C15164C4E for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:27:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I65p1-0002op-MG for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:27:11 +0200 Received: from 82.152.199.102 ([82.152.199.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:27:11 +0200 Received: from slong by 82.152.199.102 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:27:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: package with funny licence Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:28:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <18058.8984.63918.143003@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20070703190152.66063bfe@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <200707042202.31726.pauldv@gentoo.org> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.152.199.102 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 922ee379-7f7a-45cc-97ed-03e6aeae9da9 X-Archives-Hash: 8707c87e4a2b1b6eedf8f29600980aee Paul de Vrieze wrote: >> > ;; 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. > It doesn't seem like a license to me at all, since it has nothing but declaratory statements. It maybe be Published by some group, but they seem to make no restrictions whatsoever. As such, I'd personally feel quite happy using it as-is; I don't think they much care either way :-) May G bless you all.. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list