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Re: hashicorp license change



Hi,

I just committed licenses/busl-1.1-license.

Best
-- 
Iku

On 2023/08/20 10:14, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 09:29:33AM +0900, Iku Iwasa wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Is it OK to use "busl-1.1" as the value of LICENSE field for Business
>>> Source License 1.1, according to https://spdx.org/licenses/BUSL-1.1.html?
>>
>> We need to add busl-1.1 to pkgsrc/licenses/busl-1.1 first, but
>> otherwise that would be ok.
>
> (I realize that the point below is a minor oversight, but just so
> everybody is clear:)
>
> My impression is that the entire point here is that busl-1.1 is not a
> Free Software license (and is not Open Source or DFSG-Free).
>
> Thus it needs to be busl-1.1-license (with a -license suffix to
> indicated that it is non-Free), and not in DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.
>
> See mk/license.mk for details.
>
> (I don't view this as a controversial opinion; it seems very
> straigthforward with no room for judgement calls.)


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