On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:23:15AM +0000, William Dell Wisner wrote:
>
> I have a package (lft) that uses its own unique open source license
> ("MainNerve Public License for Open Source":
> http://www.mainnerve.com/os/mpl.html). While this license reads as a
> pretty typical open source license, it does not actually fit any of the
> available keywords for the License: field. It's not OSI approved, it's
> not restrictive, it's not commercial, it's not public domain.. it's
> "other open source", but there is no such keyword available.
>
> What, then, shall we do with it?
It sounds a lot like GNU. But dunno for sure.
Did you try emailing them? Give them the info about the available fink
license types and see if they'd be satisfied with one of them. This
has worked well for me for other weirdly-licensed programs.
dan
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