[arch] License field in PKGBUILDs

[Christoph Neuroth]

Hi there,

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 17:55, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
> Has there been any development regarding when and how the license field is
> going to be used?  We are having increasing trouble with people using it
> in PKGBUILDs in the AUR.  
Yeah I accidently used it sometimes myself. I think we should really get this 
moving. I like to keep my systems clean from proprietary software wherever 
possible. I would still prefer moving all non-free applications to a own 
repository, but if that isn't going to happen a good usage of the license 
field would be ok. pacman.conf should be usable to do things like 
"ExcludeAll, Allow GPL, LGPL, BSD, ...." then. To make this happen we would 
need to define a list of known licenses and assing one abbreviation to each 
of them so everyone uses the same.

Additionally, I think we shouldn't depend on proprietary programs where its 
not needed. E.g. I don't see why kdebase would really *need* rar support.

Christoph
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Christoph 'delmonico' Neuroth
http://www.delmonico.de
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
If that is granted, all else follows." George Orwell
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