Quoting Ivan Zaigralin <[email protected]>:
How about a variable in .info which identifies the type of license(s) used
in the package to be built? Something like
LICENSE="free"|"non-free"
or
FREE_SOFTWARE="true"|"false"
where "free" would indicate that the package only contains free software.
The inclusion of this variable can be made optional.
This will be transparent to those who want to keep using Slackbuilds the
same way as before, but it will also provide utility to everyone. With
only a modest effort from each maintainer, every user will be able to quickly
check the license type of a package without chasing down the
sources. Moreover,
automated license management will become possible.
Hi
License management? Do we really need this? Isn't this going to make
things more complicated, unnecessarily? I may sound lazy and selfish,
but I do not want to have to check a yet another thing before i submit
a SlackBuild. If some software requires registration or has something
"special" about it's license, couldn't this be listed in the README?
-petar
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