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

[Alec Warner]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:

> Good $timezonegreeting,
>
> 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.
>
> I have been unable to find a proper contact for both repositories, so I
> hope people that know who to contact are reading this.
>

I will let the correct people at Google know.

-A


>
> 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.
>
>
> Have fun,
>
> Patrick
>
>
>