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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Azamat Hackimov <azamat.hackimov@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-licenses] dev-games/aseprite EULA License
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:11:27
Message-Id: 22601.34312.105001.275538@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-licenses] dev-games/aseprite EULA License by Azamat Hackimov
1 >>>>> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Azamat Hackimov wrote:
2
3 > I'm maintainer of dev-games/aseprite package. After version 1.1.7
4 > developer changed license from GPL-2 to own EULA license[1]. Can I
5 > continue to maintain this package in portage tree under these
6 > conditions?
7 > As I can see, we can't redistribute source code - 2(b) clause, so
8 > there already RESTRICT="mirror". Sources are still available in
9 > Github and author intends to continue to do so.
10
11 I don't see a problem with maintaining the package. Presumably, the
12 license should be added to the @EULA group. And the ebuild needs
13 RESTRICT="mirror bindist" because any built binaries cannot be
14 distributed either.
15
16 I also agree that the free version should be kept if possible.
17
18 Ulrich
19
20 > [1] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/master/EULA.txt

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