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As software licenses seem to be so popular to talk about on gentoo-dev how |
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about this one. |
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Marijn mentioned on Irc that the bestcrypt license commercial trial license |
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shouldn't be a supported package in Gentoo. |
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Seeking further there is more.... |
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Other licenses with a free time limited evaluation that are supported in |
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Gentoo portage: |
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ALMWorks-1.2 |
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Arkkra |
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OTN |
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RAR |
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BestCrypt is similar: |
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"BestCrypt for Linux is distributed as software with 30 days evaluation |
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period. After evaluation period expired, the user has to either pay for |
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his/her copy of BestCrypt software for Linux or uninstall it. (see End User |
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License Agreement.)" |
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http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/linux.htm (Additional Notes) |
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Is there a need for official policy here (and a bit of package removals)? |
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Daniel Black <dragonheart@g.o> |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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