>>>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:

> I have one question: The license can be GPL-compatible but the
> software itself non-free. So binary-only packages distributed under
> e.g. BSD license should remain BSD or not?

Yes, if it's BSD licensed then it should have LICENSE="BSD".

> If we start to measure the software freedom of the code inside the
> package, then maybe LICENSE is the wrong variable to express this.

I'm aware that we can't distinguish the two cases. Should we have a
"binary-only" license to catch it?

Ulrich

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