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| author | gdt <gdt> | 2011-11-30 23:55:33 +0000 |
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| committer | gdt <gdt> | 2011-11-30 23:55:33 +0000 |
| commit | 48c6a84fdf8dc078cc28b97c3c189ea8f7918a12 (patch) | |
| tree | e9655bb491b77f94d517b554f7ed10af916d2e98 /mk | |
| parent | 8ba979e4c080a3510f992865591fa83510332f48 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-48c6a84fdf8dc078cc28b97c3c189ea8f7918a12.tar.gz | |
Drop Affero GPL from DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.
Add explanation of why:
# As an exception to the Open Source or Free policy, the board
# of The NetBSD Foundation has decided that licenses that
# trigger obligations from use (rather than redistribution),
# such as the Affero GPL, should not be in
# DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.
ok board@
Diffstat (limited to 'mk')
| -rw-r--r-- | mk/license.mk | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mk/license.mk b/mk/license.mk index 5022c5e52d9..07dcb6e0e7c 100644 --- a/mk/license.mk +++ b/mk/license.mk @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.45 2011/11/29 14:49:19 ryoon Exp $ +# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.46 2011/11/30 23:55:33 gdt Exp $ # # This file handles everything about the LICENSE variable. It is # included automatically by bsd.pkg.mk. @@ -66,12 +66,18 @@ # The list of licenses that will be the default value of # ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES. Adapting the longstanding policy of Open # Source or Free licenses not requiring tags, it should contain -# all licenses that are Open Source or Free, so as to provide +# almost all licenses that are Open Source or Free, so as to provide # the most expansive default that almost all people find # acceptable. (Many people will want to add more licenses to # ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES; the point is to have a default that very # few people want to shrink.) # +# As an exception to the Open Source or Free policy, the board +# of The NetBSD Foundation has decided that licenses that +# trigger obligations from use (rather than redistribution), +# such as the Affero GPL, should not be in +# DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES. +# # Licenses not formally approved as Free or Open Source may be # added if they have terms that would obviously be approved if # the effort were made. Such license names will have a comment @@ -119,8 +125,7 @@ DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES= \ isc \ boost-license \ mplusfont \ - cc-by-sa-v3.0 \ - gnu-agpl-v3 + cc-by-sa-v3.0 # not approved by OSI, derived from BSD DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+= info-zip |