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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: vincent@×××××××××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:22:58
Message-Id: 20091228122146.3f9b6460@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Non-free software in Gentoo by Vincent Launchbury
1 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:36:34 -0500
2 Vincent Launchbury <vincent@×××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
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4 > Also relating to this, what is freedist? The package app-text/dos2unix
5 > lists 'freedist' as its license, and /usr/portage/licenses/freedist
6 > says only "Freely Distributable". Several other packages do this, and
7 > I'm sure it's not correct. I'm not entirely sure, but I think the
8 > dos2unix package is from http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/,
9 > which clearly says its GPLv2. Packages like this could be looked into
10 > and fixed.
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12 No, that would be app-text/tofrodos (see bug #225903 [1] for details
13 - some of the confusion over where the app-text/dos2unix sources
14 originated was discussed there).
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17 Regards,
18 jer
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21 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225903