Re: new license?

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Strictly, as we have documented the policy, the question is if it's been
> blessed by OSI or FSF.  This probably hasn't been approved, so that
> would lead to adding it as iij-license and not being in
> DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE.
>
> Do you know if it's been approved?

No idea, :-/

> However, it seems that OSI and FSF are not actively approving new
> licenses.   So I am wondering about treating Debian including
> somethingin main per the DFSG as an additional approving authority for
> adequately Free.  Do you know if this license is acceptable to Debian
> (by finding something under it in main)?

It is known to Debian:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/httpd/libapache2-mod-encoding


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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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