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Re: Why there is no OSS and non-OSS notice in pkgsrc packages?



On Jan 4, 2008 8:26 PM, Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost> wrote:
> I think i have a good example.
>
> /archivers/unrar:
> The unRAR utility is a freeware program, distributed with source
> code and developed for extracting, testing and viewing the contents
> of archives created with the RAR archiver, version 1.50 and above.
>
> PKGNAME=unrar-3.7.5
> LICENSE=unrar-license
>
>
> This is OSS, while it requires 'unrar-license'.
>

But unrar isn't OSS. It's free and contains source, but:

RESTRICTED=     Do not modify. Do not charge a fee for redistribution.

Find another example :-)

-- 
Daniel Horecki
http://morr.pl



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