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-rw-r--r--mk/license.mk13
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