Daniel Black ha scritto: > As software licenses seem to be so popular to talk about on gentoo-dev how > about this one. > > Marijn mentioned on Irc that the bestcrypt license commercial trial license > shouldn't be a supported package in Gentoo. > > Seeking further there is more.... > > Other licenses with a free time limited evaluation that are supported in > Gentoo portage: > ALMWorks-1.2 > Arkkra > OTN > RAR > > BestCrypt is similar: > "BestCrypt for Linux is distributed as software with 30 days evaluation > period. After evaluation period expired, the user has to either pay for > his/her copy of BestCrypt software for Linux or uninstall it. (see End User > License Agreement.)" > http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/linux.htm (Additional Notes) > > Is there a need for official policy here (and a bit of package removals)?
/me votes for remove them (and app-cdr/nero) We removed winex for a similar reason and imho it's better to remove this crap from the repository (it's difficult to support that packages without violate the licence) -- Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli - http://dev.gentoo.org/~drizzt/ FreeSBIE Developer, Gentoo Developer, GUFI Staff There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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