At 10:22 Uhr -0400 17.04.2002, Chris Devers wrote: >On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: > >> the following packages have a "Restrictive" license: > >What is the working definition of restrictive? Non-GPL? Non-Berkeley? >(Arguably, GPL is much more restrictive than BSD, but somehow I don't >think that's a problem in this context).
That is completly irrelevant. Lease the packageing policy for more information. Roughly, anything that is no OSI-Approved is Restrictive. The question was not whether "restrictive" is the correct license or not. The question was whether the actual license of each of these packages makes any restrictions on the distributions of binaries. For some of the listed packages there maybe be none, for others there may be. By default I have to assume that they all prohibit binary distribution. But I ask so that you, the maintainers of the packages, can tell me (possibly supported by a short license excerpt) that indeed the license does not prohibit redistribution of binaries. >Most of the packages I don't know enough about to comment on, but: > >> vim > > vim-nox > [...] >IANAL, but I am a Vim fan, and I don't see any >problem in Fink providing a binary version here, especially given that >Fink also makes the source available and doesn't seem to modify anything. All I wanted to know (regarding vim) was answered by your quote of the license above. Just to clarify it once more: I can't go thru all these packages by hand myself - or maybe i can, but I won't, it's a lot of work for me and I am not inclined to waste even more time on this stuff than I already do. To first find the license, then read it and understand it, then decide *is* work, esp. if you have to do it for 1-2 dozen packages. Hence i ask the package maintainers to do this work for me. That's all. >But like I say, I'm not sure what the criteria for "restrictive" are. Again, this is completly unimportant for answering the original question. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
