On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 12:35 PM Lorenzo Salvadore < phascolarc...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
> > IMO at first sight it seems NONE since it don't match Predefined License > > List > > > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/book/#licenses-license-list > > A non predefined License is not NONE, it's a license that you have to > specify > manually, see for example > > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/book/#licenses-license_perms-ex1 > > You can find another example in math/maxima, where I had to add a > MAXIMAEXTRACLAUSE > license. > > If you put NONE, then no permission will be specified, although the > license seems to give > some. For example I think dist-mirror is fine. > > But please keep in mind that I am not a lawyer. > > Cheers, > > Lorenzo Salvadore > > For my personal needs I am maintaining a long list of software repositories . When there is not any license information in a repository , I am using ( Undefined ) phrase . But in a USA Government related Github repository , when a file in a repository does not have a license , they are using Unknown even if there are plenty of files with license information . For such cases , I am using , for example , ( BSD , see Parts ) When I am not able to identify a license with its name , but its license is permissive with some restrictions , I am using ( Restricted ) phrase ( For me this is UnUsable ... ) but some features may be studied . I am using ( Restricted ) phrase with a Permissive license such as BSD , ISC , or MIT , but it has additional requirements which I may not fulfill . If the license is weak or strong copyleft I am not recording it . In FreeBSD documents , If FreeBSD Project managers adopt such a scheme for exceptional licensed sources , their definitions may be used . I looked at the SPDX license list to search for an entry for such licenses , it seems that there is not any entry for unidentifiable licenses , or I did not understand their system correctly . With my best wishes . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
