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Description

  • Name: MEGAcmd
  • Description: Command Line Interactive and Scriptable Application to access MEGA
  • Homepage: https://mega.nz/cmd (or is it https://mega.io/cmd? Without the Firefox extension, I get redirected to *.io, however, with that suffix, the website fails to load due to some odd error with the html code on the website)
  • Repository: https://github.com/meganz/MEGAcmd
  • Justification for inclusion: People have already requested MEGASync, however as that is under a proprietary license, it does not fit the criteria for an official Solus package, however MEGAcmd looks like it could be included, although the situation is weird.
  • Open source: Yes?
  • Current release tarball: https://github.com/meganz/MEGAcmd/archive/refs/tags/1.5.1_Linux.tar.gz

Unlike MEGASync, MEGAcmd is licensed under an appropriate license for inclusion, however the situation is a bit weird, as the official DEBs have the license listed as Simplified BSD 2-Clause, the RPMs list no license whatsoever, and the Alpine packages list the license file in the GitHub repository as the license source, which looks to be a copy-paste of a general proprietary license, except for a clause which explicitly points out MEGAcmd as licensed under the GPL license (without mentioning which version, although the link provided links to the GPLv3).

Event Timeline

The license in github is BSD-2-Clause. I think we are fine with it.

algent triaged this task as Normal priority.Nov 15 2022, 5:42 PM
algent added a project: Needs Maintainer.
algent moved this task from Backlog to Accepted For Inclusion on the Package Requests board.

Thanks, that's great.

The licensing situation is still weird, however I'll talk about that over on IRC.