Re: license questions

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Jukka Salmi <j+pkgsrc-wip%2007.salmi.ch@localhost> writes:

> Greg Troxel --> pkgsrc-wip-discuss (2007-08-04 21:37:29 -0400):
>>   what should LICENSE be set to for dk{,im}-milter? Currently it's set
>>   to `no-profit', but pkglint tells me that's deprecated. I don't think
>>   `sendmail-license' ("SENDMAIL LICENSE") is correct either, at least
>>   both packages contain a license titled "SENDMAIL OPEN SOURCE LICENSE",
>>   and that one seems to differ from pkgsrc/licenses/sendmail-license.
>> 
>> Yes, no-profit is deprecated because it's bogus: that's not a name for
>> an actual license.
>> 
>> Basically, read the source tarball and find the place where the
>> copyright holders give permission to copy, and look at that text.  If
>> it's text that has been approved as Open Source/Free by OSI/SFS, then
>> for now no tag is needed.  But if it's not, it goes in
>> pkgsrc/licenses/foo-license and you set to that.
>
> Both programs are licensed under the "SENDMAIL OPEN SOURCE LICENSE"
> (which is attached to this message); that license seems not to be
> approved by OSI, at least I can't find it [1]here.
>
> Redistribution of these two packages seems to be fine; however, IANAL
> and thus probably fail to parse the license correctly.
>
> IMHO this license should be committed as
> pkgsrc/licenses/sendmail-opensource-license. Could anybody with committ
> access do this or should I send a PR?

I have committed the license and set LICENSE= to it in dk-milter and
dkim-milter.

> Both these projects chose the "Other / Proprietary License" license
> category on sourceforge.

That's really bogus - sourceforge used to reliably open source....


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