[Mageia-dev] [RPM] cauldron nonfree/release t-lasku-1.10.0-1.mga2.nonfree

Fri Jul 22 02:57:06 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 03:26 +0300, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> On 21.07.2011 21:13, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> > On 21 July 2011 19:16, Mageia Team <buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org> wrote:
+> >> Description :
+> >> T-lasku is a Finnish invoicing software for Linux.
+> > 
+> > It should be explained why it's in tainted...
+> > 
+> 
+> It is not in tainted, though, and generally we do not have explanations
+> for nonfree packages.
+> 
+> This is an interesting case of BSD licensed software without source
+> code, so I guess it would be good to either
+> a) mention the reason it being in nonfree in the Description, or
+> b) change our license tag policy to mark such software as
+>    e.g. "Freeware" or "BSD without source".
+> 
+> I slightly prefer a) to avoid complicating the policy for the rare
+> cases, but either solution is fine to me.
+
+Technically, we can add any license we want, the license checks are not
+enforced at upload time. But maybe that's something to do, once I will
+run out of ideas to annoy packagers ( ie once the macro-not-expanded
+have been reenabled ).
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+