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

[Michael Scherer]

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 ).


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Michael Scherer