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

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Patrick Lauer wrote:

> The README at both

> https://github.com/coreos/portage-stable
> and
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/portage-stable/+/master/README

> claims that:

> """
> 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.
> """

> 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.

Thanks for noticing this. Quoting the GPL-2:

   4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
   except as expressly provided under this License.  Any attempt
   otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
   void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.

Does this apply here? It would mean that Google's rights to distribute
the Portage tree have been terminated.

Ulrich