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

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Sep 15 16:07:00 PDT 2014


> On Sep 14, 2014, at 1:12 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

The latest version explicitly mentions GPL 2.

https://github.com/gtimelog/gtimelog/blob/master/COPYING

We should update the port.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/39710




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