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

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sat, 07 Mar 2015 10:22:00 +0800 Patrick Lauer 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.

1. Maybe a license and copyright violation claims should be filed
directly to github? They should contact upstream fast.

2. One may contact person responsible to that commit of invalid
README file:

Darin Petkov <petkov@××××××××.org>
https://github.com/coreos/portage-stable/commit/0465d53c7be43d55cfabb3dff56f32803719d0fe
https://codereview.chromium.org/6756045

> 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.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko