[gentoo-project] Re: Bad license and attribution by ChromiumOS and CoreOS

[Alec Warner]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
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>> Good $timezonegreeting,
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>> The README at both
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>> https://github.com/coreos/portage-stable
>> and
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>> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/portage-stable/+/master/README
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>> claims that:
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>> """
>> Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium OS Authors. All rights reserved.
>> Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
>> found in the LICENSE file.
>> """
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>> Since this is a copy of Gentoo ebuilds this is demonstrably wrong, the
>> copyrights on the files themselves are intact. Copyright is obviously
>> Gentoo Foundation, and license is GPL-2.
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>> I have been unable to find a proper contact for both repositories, so I
>> hope people that know who to contact are reading this.
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> I will let the correct people at Google know.
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>
Just for the record I'm not on gentoo-project, so if you don't reply to the
trustees I will never see it. In any case, someone requested an update; and
the update is that I have been busy at work (we just launched Google Cloud
Storage Nearline, yay!). Luckily Mike picked up my slack and contacted the
appropriate people and this is in-progress. Thanks Mike!

-A


> -A
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>> Once this is corrected I'd strongly suggest to both downstreams to poste
>> a prominent notice to inform all downstream users of this issue to avoid
>> accidental license violations.
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>> Have fun,
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>> Patrick
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