Gentoo Archives: gentoo-licenses

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-licenses@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-licenses] BSD-alike licenses
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 17:29:04
Message-Id: 22548.56410.603711.213879@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
1 In profiles/license_groups, there is the following comment in front of
2 the MISC-FREE license group:
3
4 # TODO: maybe add a category for BSD-alike MISC-FREE licenses for easy
5 # separation?
6 # BSD-4 alikes: dom4j FastCGI icu JDOM
7
8 This was added in 2010. I looked at some 20 licenses in the MISC-FREE
9 group and I find it difficult where to draw the line. How do we define
10 "BSD-alikeness" and "BSD-4-alikeness", in the first place? Also, what
11 would be the purpose of such a license group?
12
13 So, does anyone still want to pick this up, or should we delete that
14 comment?
15
16 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-licenses] BSD-alike licenses "Hanno Böck" <hanno@g.o>