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* [gentoo-project] Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS
@ 2015-03-07  2:22 99% Patrick Lauer
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From: Patrick Lauer @ 2015-03-07  2:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-project, trustees

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




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