On 02/02/2011 07:40 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 02/02/2011 16:38, Martin Schlander a écrit :
Don't forget that not only licences need to be considered. Other ("legal") issues can block packages too (e.g. patents and other weirdness).
yes, but this is not something we can do much about :-(
the page
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_application_blacklist
quoted by juergen is nearly perfect,
I work on a new page here:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Accepted_licences
if somebody could add the flag "work" in progress, I don't know hpwto do :-(
jdd
I was looking down the bad license section and came upon the "unrar" license
(ignore the fact it came from my home project, that was for an Ark kde
bug) it exists
in the main oss distro :
rpm -qi unrar
Name : unrar Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 4.0.4 Vendor:
obs://build.opensuse.org/home:plater
Release : 19.1 Build Date: Wed 05 Jan 2011
05:55:10 AM SAST
Install Date: Wed 05 Jan 2011 01:43:04 PM SAST Build Host: build18
Group : Productivity/Archiving/Compression Source RPM:
unrar-4.0.4-19.1.src.rpm
Size : 206368 License: Unrar License.
Freely distributable
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 05 Jan 2011 05:55:29 AM SAST, Key ID
2f489cba8ecb58c5
URL : http://www.rarlab.com
Summary : A program to extract, test, and view RAR archives
Description :
The unRAR utility is a freeware program distributed with source code
and developed for extracting, testing, and viewing the contents of
archives created with the RAR archiver.
Authors:
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Eugene Roshal