Re: abell-94 and DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES (was: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk)

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hello Frédéric,

Frédéric Fauberteau writes:
> [...]
> Log Message:
> abell-94 is acceptable
>
> We can follow Fedora Project that treats it as Free and GPL compatible:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Henry_Spencer_Reg-Ex_Library_License
> [...]

I think that in general we only follow Open Source Initiative and
Free Software Foundation approved licenses for DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES,
i.e. licenses listed in:

 https://opensource.org/licenses/category
 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

Every other licenses (also if e.g. DFSG approved) are usually better
to be discussed in tech-pkg@ and added to its own line (e.g. see
`info-zip', `vera-ttf-license', etc.).

If it is not approved by OSI/FSF can you please bring it up to
tech-pkg@? (IMHO it is in line with the free software principles
and can be added to DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES but it's better to
discuss that)


Thank you very much!