Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc

["Darrin B. Jewell" <dbj%netbsd.org@localhost>]

I haven't seen any other comment on this and I have no objection,
so I will go ahead and make your suggested change.

Darrin

Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> writes:

> "Darrin B. Jewell" <dbj%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
>
>> Module Name: pkgsrc
>> Committed By:        dbj
>> Date:                Mon Jul 21 06:53:25 UTC 2014
>>
>> Added Files:
>>      pkgsrc/licenses: wxwindows-3.1
>
> wxwindows-3.1 appears to be gnu-lgpl-v2 (or later) with an exception.
> Our concern in licensing is that people not accidentially run code with
> non-free licenses, and is not meant to enable automatic processing for
> people creating and distributing derived works.  Thus the added
> exception isn't bothersome, since it's almost inconceivable that someone
> would be ok with LGPL v2 but not ok with this license (and if so, they
> are such an outlier that our license mechanism will generally not work
> for them).
>
> This is listed by OSI as:
>
>   http://opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows
>
> (but without a version).   So it is eligible to be added, and would then
> need to be in DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE in license.mk and pkg_install.  But
> that feels like needless churn
>
> So I would suggest that this just say
>
> # LGPLv2 with additional permission; http://opensource.org/licenses/wxwindows
> LICENSE=      gnu-lgpl-v2
>
> and not have the extra file.