[125359] trunk/dports/x11/gtimelog/Portfile

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sun Sep 14 11:12:21 PDT 2014


> Revision: 125359
>           https://trac.macports.org/changeset/125359
> Author:   khindenburg at macports.org
> Date:     2014-09-14 10:53:12 -0700 (Sun, 14 Sep 2014)
> Log Message:
> -----------
> gtimelog: add license - only reference is to GPL
> 
> Modified Paths:
> --------------
>     trunk/dports/x11/gtimelog/Portfile
> 
> Modified: trunk/dports/x11/gtimelog/Portfile
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/dports/x11/gtimelog/Portfile	2014-09-14 17:44:50 UTC (rev 125358)
> +++ trunk/dports/x11/gtimelog/Portfile	2014-09-14 17:53:12 UTC (rev 125359)
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
>  name                gtimelog
>  version             0.8.1
>  categories          x11
> +license             GPL

When a project has an ambiguous license statement like this, we can't
just take a guess at what they meant. Maybe they meant you may choose
any version of the GPL, which is what you used. But it's equally
possible that they meant GPLv2 only. If they included a copy of the GPL
with the program, you could at least infer that that version is allowed.
But they haven't in this case. So the license must remain unknown
until/unless clarification is found.

Fortunately this port is probably considered non-distributable either
way, so no harm done.

- Josh


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