Hello, on Montag, 30. Juli 2007, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Jul 29, 07 00:28:32 +0200, Christian Boltz wrote:
BTW: I'm curious about the legal status of packages with License: No license agreement found in package ... ;-)
This is an error. If you spot any of these after Alpha6, please file a bug.
I'm afraid it's not only one bug I have to file... From Factory ARCHIVES.gz (zgrep "No license" | sort | uniq -c) as of today: 3 Artistic License, No license agreement found in package, accepted by IBM (said to be GPL) 4 GPL v2 or later, No license agreement found in package 3 LGPL v2 or later, No license agreement found in package 33 No license agreement found in package 3 No license agreement found in package, Public Domain, Freeware 2 No license agreement found in package, Public Domain, Freeware, (C) International Organization for Standardization 1986 17 No license agreement found in package, this package contains only pictures, sounds and icons, but no code. I can not define any license. This package will be part of the official KDE 2.2 release. The detailed list, including package names, is attached. What do you prefer: One report for all, or one per package (which would mean *lots of* reports)? Also interesting: There are several license tags in german: 52 BSD 3-Clause, Mit dem Zusatz (aus COPYING): 1 GPL v2 or later, NACHFOLGEND SIND DIE VERTRAGSBEDINGUNGEN F R DIE BENUTZUNG UND DEN ERWERB VON Another problem: Several packages seem to contain multi-line licenses, but ARCHIVES.gz only contains the first line of it (grep for "License: .*:$"). Is this also worth bugreports? (If yes: against the packages, against rpm or against the script generating ARCHIVES.gz?) The "best" i found is: 3 GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 (GFDL), see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=277387 Needless to say that bug 277387 resolves to "access denied" :-( There are some other minor problems, sometimes it seems like internal notes were put to the license tag. If you find some free time, read zgrep License: ARCHIVES.gz |sed 's/.*License: //' |sort | uniq -c (about 330 lines) So: How many bugreports shall I file? ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Lies halt mal dclp.*, da faellt dir nix mehr ein. Wenn man ein Guerteltier ueber die Tastatur abrollt, kommt besserer PHP Code raus als da gepostet wird. [R. Huebenthal in darw]