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Re: pkg/55445: Unacceptable license condition gnu-agpl-v3 for packages graphics/jbig2dec, print/ghostscript-agpl



The following reply was made to PR pkg/55445; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/55445: Unacceptable license condition gnu-agpl-v3 for
 packages graphics/jbig2dec, print/ghostscript-agpl
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 17:43:46 +0200

 > ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
 > ERROR: jbig2dec-0.18 has an unacceptable license condition:
 > ERROR:     gnu-agpl-v3
 > ERROR: You can mark the license ``gnu-agpl-v3'' as acceptable by adding
 > ERROR:     ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+= gnu-agpl-v3
 > ERROR: to /etc/mk.conf or by adding
 > ERROR:     ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES= gnu-agpl-v3
 > ERROR: to /etc/pkg_install.conf.
 
 This is working as intended. Using software under AGPL may have
 undesirable consequences under some circumstances, which is why some
 folks (and companies!) want to avoid installing anything that's AGPL.
 Situations like this are specifically what the license framework was
 designed for.
 
 For Ghostscript, there is ghostscript-gpl as an alternative.
 
 -- 
 Benny
 


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