Re: pkgsrc license question

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2014-01-11 at 02:55 GMT, OBATA Akio wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 09:07:28 +0900, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Matthew Raspberry <matt.raspberry%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
> >
> >>Can someone tell me where to find the license that pkgsrc is licensed
> >>under? I've looked on pkgsrc.org but I didn't see it there. Does it fall
> >>under the standard one on http://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html?
> >
> >That's a surprisingly good question (surprising that it's hard to
> >clearly find the answer, not about you!) :-) I believe that everyone who
> >works on pkgsrc believes that pkgsrc itself is under a modifed BSD
> >license.  But README doesn't say that, and doc/pkgsrc.txt at least does
> >not make it obvious.  That said, your conclusion about pkgsrc being
> >under a 2-clause BSD license seems entirely reasonable given what's
> >easily findable.
> 
> Unfortunately, we can find 4-clause BSD license in 
> pkgsrc/mk/{buildlink3,tools}.

And bsd.pkg.mk is public domain.

Matthew, is there a particular reason for asking?  Perhaps we can help
if there is reason you cannot use pkgsrc due to this.  pkgsrc is
somewhat unusual in that it mostly consists of metadata.

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