> -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Neuroth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 June 2005 18:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General Discusson about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch] License field in PKGBUILDs > > 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.
This is not so easy - too many people assume that the license issue is as simple as GPL, LGPL, BSD but it's not - some applications have their very own license and I don't see how we can account for all eventualities with what you have suggested - the only effective usage of license I can currently see is to use the url of the license information in the field - of course this could be linked against a dbase of well known licenses for some purposes but I don't think a catch all solution is possible. A URL link also has real value! > 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 > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
