From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, trustees@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 10:22:00 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FA60C8.2020503@gentoo.org> (raw)
Good $timezonegreeting,
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.
I have been unable to find a proper contact for both repositories, so I
hope people that know who to contact are reading this.
Once this is corrected I'd strongly suggest to both downstreams to poste
a prominent notice to inform all downstream users of this issue to avoid
accidental license violations.
Have fun,
Patrick
next reply other threads:[~2015-03-07 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-07 2:22 Patrick Lauer [this message]
2015-03-07 3:46 ` [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS Alex Brandt
2015-03-07 3:55 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-07 4:13 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-07 13:44 ` Sven Vermeulen
2015-03-07 8:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-03-07 9:05 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-07 12:09 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-07 14:27 ` Anthony G. Basile
2015-03-22 7:36 ` Jeroen Roovers
2015-03-22 8:21 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-03-22 12:14 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-22 16:22 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-03-22 16:25 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-03-22 18:08 ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-03-11 6:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-03-07 9:33 ` Matthias Maier
2015-03-07 19:11 ` [gentoo-project] " Alec Warner
2015-03-11 5:22 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-11 8:32 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2015-03-13 0:37 ` Alec Warner
2015-03-13 4:41 ` [gentoo-project] " Mike Frysinger
2015-03-13 7:46 ` Alexander Berntsen
2015-03-13 10:30 ` Andrew Savchenko
2015-03-13 11:26 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-13 22:17 ` Rich Freeman
2015-03-13 22:29 ` Andrew Savchenko
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