From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BD4138ACE for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6A9BE089D; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 002D3E089B for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id t278rwOj021564; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 09:53:58 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id t278rwJn023816; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 09:53:58 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id t278rwJ8023812; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 09:53:58 +0100 Message-ID: <21754.48293.955801.232338@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 09:53:57 +0100 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Cc: trustees@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS In-Reply-To: <54FA60C8.2020503@gentoo.org> References: <54FA60C8.2020503@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="pgp+signed+fjqiOXAya/njnzQ"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ded7f462-139a-4fe2-a0b6-1bf88b50f3c2 X-Archives-Hash: 9a71de19e1d8b30e850cffe0f02168c1 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+fjqiOXAya/njnzQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Patrick Lauer wrote: > The README at both > https://github.com/coreos/portage-stable > and > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/portage-stable/+/master/README > claims that: > """ > Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved. > Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be > found in the LICENSE file. > """ > Since this is a copy of Gentoo ebuilds this is demonstrably wrong, the > copyrights on the files themselves are intact. Copyright is obviously > Gentoo Foundation, and license is GPL-2. Thanks for noticing this. Quoting the GPL-2: 4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. Does this apply here? It would mean that Google's rights to distribute the Portage tree have been terminated. Ulrich --pgp+signed+fjqiOXAya/njnzQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJU+ryjAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJz5+MH/jdc1q55yOME2woUeczlUHs2 GEoXFpLbuePfBWN2OMA/nj0fZq27HwSFe6TUtQoa1s0oCt63AfpGzZvAuWW9aaLB pmIGCOXORhGSiYr7NlkHVsp6XTtaLXdBGKBFM13y2Z/QHLrABk4axxFMIZFxVBrp 8ktMqTSUXabKEzOPDX1zZ9PK+nDTE0b2klpkTdWhl0xGBnnUm/KE9o1vNjnpBD6H EUMjF+ZsyH+oKYQ7/sMT+Z1Grq128oDBlJvHWymWCZX8OCY0ykFWduH3f5CZica1 yTBQrXoE5MKNg+hbtYcFS9RWaMErzB/WYRYiywW2zuVT6SMSuxwCG9lLqabHJRs= =r0vZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+fjqiOXAya/njnzQ--