Saadat wrote:
> I would like to make the application available through fink, i.e. "fink 
> install myapp" should work.
> 
> My application uses components, which have GPL2, GPL, BSD and MIT 
> licenses. Looking at the packaging instructions, it seems that I would 
> have to have one license under which the application is released. If I 
> cannot resolve the license issues to the satisfaction of the Fink 
> distribution approval process, I was thinking that I could just release 
> the binary distribution for now and release the source distribution 
> after verifying the license stuff.

I don't think that Fink imposes to have one license. "OSI-approved" 
would cover all those you mentioned. Maybe even "GPL/BSD/MIT" would be 
possible. Soem gnome stuff has "GPL/LGPL/GFDL", for example.

  If you are sure that your GPL-covered parts allow you to keep those 
other licenses for other parts, this should be fine with Fink. Just 
install all the licenses with the package, for example into the 
appropriate /sw/share/doc/* directory via the DocFiles field.

You are certainly aware of the fact that at least the GPL requires you 
to release sources as soon as you distribute binaries?

-- 
Martin






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