Re: new license?

[manu%netbsd.org@localhost (Emmanuel Dreyfus)]

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

> Yes, I read it.  Besides Joerg's point (which is quite valid), the
> larger issue is that pkgsrc is not currently in the business of deciding
> if licenses are ok.   So you could ask the upstream if they have been
> blessed as Open or Free by OSI or FSF, given that they've chosen a
> non-standard license.   If they have a non-standard non-approved
> license, they should expect to be treated as non-standard.

The software was released 14 years ago and wae never updated since that
time. Odds are scarce that the person that made the decision is still
there. I had a look at other opensource software from the same
institution, and there is no license policy: A random sample yields MIT,
2-clause BSD, 3-clause BSD, or no license at all.

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