https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299086 Summary: several "interesting" license tags Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Alpha 7 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: jw@novell.com ReportedBy: suse-beta@cboltz.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Preamble: 1. I posted this in opensuse-packaging some days ago without any response, therefore I'm opening this bugreport. 2. Yes, I know that bugreports covering several packages aren't ideal. Unfortunately, splitting it in advance would have caused lots of work - which could be needless in case you tell me the split isn't needed ;-) If I shall split this report, just tell me. 3. Severity "major" because this affects lots of packages. End Preamble ;-)
From Factory ARCHIVES.gz (zgrep "No license" | sort | uniq -c) as of 2007-08-05: 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: .*:$" should list most of them). 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? ;-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.