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Re: new license?



Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> By the way, I think we suddently got overzealous on this issue. Clauses
> similar to mod_encoding's license clause 4 are widespread in
> pkgsrc/licenses. We often approve them by default and even distribute
> patched software without changing the name (e.g. OpenSSL). If we
> consider pkgsrc patches makes a derived software (I do not), then this
> would be a license violation.

For the sake of completeness: apache-1.1, openssl, php,
radiance-license, yed-license all contain "Products derived from this
software may not be called...". We automatically approve apache-1.1,
openssl and php.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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