[pkgsrc/trunk]: pkgsrc/mk Describe DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES better.

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details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc/rev/15681c99db3a
branches:  trunk
changeset: 532526:15681c99db3a
user:      gdt <gdt%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
date:      Wed Aug 22 16:29:15 2007 +0000

description:
Describe DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES better.

Add GPL v3 to DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.

Add plan for dealing with Free licenses that have not been approved as
Free.

diffstat:

 mk/license.mk |  27 ++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diffs (53 lines):

diff -r d838e2a7df25 -r 15681c99db3a mk/license.mk
--- a/mk/license.mk     Wed Aug 22 16:03:58 2007 +0000
+++ b/mk/license.mk     Wed Aug 22 16:29:15 2007 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.7 2007/08/14 15:23:53 gdt Exp $
+# $NetBSD: license.mk,v 1.8 2007/08/22 16:29:15 gdt Exp $
 #
 # Note: This file is in draft state and not yet actively used.
 #
@@ -57,30 +57,31 @@
 # === Predefined variables ===
 #
 # DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES
-#      The list of licenses that before July, 2007 did not require
-#      tagging because they were Open Source or Free.  The intent is
-#      to make it contain licenses that are Open Source or Free and
-#      not controversial, so as to provide a default that almost all
-#      people find acceptable.  (Many people will want to add more
-#      licenses to ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES; the point is to have a
-#      default that very few people want to shrink.)
+#      The list of licenses that will be the default value of
+#      ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES.  Adapting the longstanding policy of Open
+#      Source or Free licenses not requiring tags, it should contain
+#      all licenses that are Open Source or Free, so as to provide
+#      the most expansive default that almost all people find
+#      acceptable.  (Many people will want to add more licenses to
+#      ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES; the point is to have a default that very
+#      few people want to shrink.)
 #
 # === See also ===
 #
 #      ../doc/TODO, section "Licenses of packages"
 #
 
-# TODO: Determine whether GPLv3 should be included (and therefore if
-# there should be a "widely accepted" test in addition to open
-# source/free).  Perhaps wait until OSI decides whether or not to
-# approve GPLv3 as open source.
-
 # This list is not complete.  Free and Open Source licenses should be
 # added to the list as they are added to pkgsrc.
 
+# XXX Surely we will encounter licenses that clearly are Free, but
+# which have not been formally approved.  These licenses, if added,
+# should be somehow marked.
+
 DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES= \
        public-domain \
        gnu-gpl-v2 gnu-lgpl-v2 \
+       gnu-gpl-v3 gnu-lgpl-v3 \
        original-bsd modified-bsd \
        x11 \
        apache-2.0 \