Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:25:52 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler
<blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Is there a default, eg for LICENSE, in an ebuild if
| the ebuild's author can't discover it?

Not for LICENSE. If you can't find the LICENSE, you can't legally
distribute or use the software so you can't make an ebuild for it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[Mariusz Pękala]

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On 2006-01-04 17:45:46 +0000 (Wed, Jan), Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:25:52 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler
> <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
> | Is there a default, eg for LICENSE, in an ebuild if
> | the ebuild's author can't discover it?
> 
> Not for LICENSE. If you can't find the LICENSE, you can't legally
> distribute or use the software so you can't make an ebuild for it.

skoot@cthulhu ~ $ cat /usr/portage/licenses/secretware

You are not authorized to know under what conditions you may use this
software.

You are not authorized to know whether you may use, modify, distribute
modified and unmodified versions of this software.

You must not violate any restriction placed by this license. Failure to
do so will cause you to be punished to the fullest extent of the law,
according to the rules that you are not authorized to know.

skoot@cthulhu ~ $

Are you sure you WANT to make an ebuild for this software? ;-)


P.S.:
Do you know of any package that uses the D&R license?
And do you know any user of such package? :-))))

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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[Lares Moreau]

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On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:25 -0800, maxim wexler wrote:
> Is there a default, eg for LICENSE, in an ebuild if
> the ebuild's author can't discover it?

What package?  We'll take a look.

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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[maxim wexler]

--- Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:25 -0800, maxim wexler
> wrote:
> > Is there a default, eg for LICENSE, in an ebuild
> if
> > the ebuild's author can't discover it?
> 
> What package?  We'll take a look.
> 

Well, you said that already, and I posted skel.ebuild
but I got no response.

So, here it is again up to LICENSE where I'm stuck:

# Short one-line description of this package.
DESCRIPTION="This is a Latin to English translator"

# Homepage, not used by Portage directly but handy for
developer reference
HOMEPAGE="http://users.erols.com/whitaker/wordslux.htm"

# Point to any required sources; these will be
automatically downloaded by
# Portage.
SRC_URI="ftp://petrus.thomasaquinas.edu/pub/linux/words/words-1.97-linux.tar.gz"

# License of the package.  This must match the name of
file(s) in
# /usr/portage/licenses/.  For complex license
combination see the developer
# docs on gentoo.org for details.
LICENSE=""

bdragoo@thomasaquinas.edu

wrote it but doesn't answer my emails
>


		
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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[Paul Varner]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 17:35 -0800, maxim wexler wrote:
> 
> --- Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 09:25 -0800, maxim wexler
> > wrote:
> > > Is there a default, eg for LICENSE, in an ebuild
> > if
> > > the ebuild's author can't discover it?
> > 
> > What package?  We'll take a look.
> > 
> 

According to http://users.erols.com/whitaker/wordsdoc.htm the license
is:

"All parts of the WORDS system, source code and data files, are made
freely available to anyone who wishes to use them, for whatever
purpose."

The license in portage that matches is the "as-is" license

Having said that the usual disclaimer applies in that I am not a lawyer
and if you want to be safe, the best bet would be to write to the author
as listed on the webpage and ask for clarification.

Regards,
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:35:59 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:

> So, here it is again up to LICENSE where I'm stuck:

> # Point to any required sources; these will be automatically downloaded by
> # Portage.
> SRC_URI="ftp://petrus.thomasaquinas.edu/pub/linux/words/words-1.97-linux.tar.gz"

You shouldn't put the version number in SRC_URI, that way it still works
when you rename the ebuild for a later version. 

SRC_URI="ftp://petrus.thomasaquinas.edu/pub/linux/words/${P}-linux.tar.gz"

> # License of the package.  This must match the name of file(s) in
> # /usr/portage/licenses/.  For complex license combination see the developer
> # docs on gentoo.org for details.
> LICENSE=""

It's in the documentation files in the tarball

Licence

All parts of the WORDS system, source code and data files, are made freely available to anyone who wishes to use them, for whatever purpose.
 
Which makes it Freely Distributable, surely.


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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[maxim wexler]

 
> It's in the documentation files in the tarball
> 
> Licence
> 
> All parts of the WORDS system, source code and data
> files, are made freely available to anyone who
> wishes to use them, for whatever purpose.
>  
> Which makes it Freely Distributable, surely.
> 

OK, setting LICENSE="as-is". So I guess that leaves
this bit:


# Comprehensive list of any and all USE flags
leveraged in the ebuild,
# with the exception of any ARCH specific flags, i.e.
"ppc", "sparc",
# "x86" and "alpha".  This is a required variable.  If
the ebuild doesn't 
# use any USE flags, set to "".
IUSE="X gnome"


What does "leveraged in the ebuild" mean? I'm inclined
to set IUSE="" as suggested. Is that correct? This is
a very simple console app.




		
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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:16:43 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:

> What does "leveraged in the ebuild" mean? I'm inclined
> to set IUSE="" as suggested. Is that correct?

"Used in the ebuild". If your ebuild bases the configuration of the
package on any USE variables, they should be listed here. If not, set
IUSE="".


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