Re: RFC: new license type

On 10/3/2015 3:33 PM, Daniel Macks wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 15:18:42 -0500, Hanspeter Niederstrasser
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently (since 2005), (L)GPL packages that link to Fink's OpenSSL must
>> be marked as Restrictive because we can't distribute binaries. A note
>> is usually left in DescPackaging to keep track of the original
>> license.
>>
>> With system-openssl dying with 10.11, there's going to be a large
>> increase in packages that suddenly have to become Restrictive and the
>> mass updates will probably cause information to be lost.
>>
>> Would it make sense to add a new license type such as GPL/OpenSSL?
>> This would note the main license, the fact that it links to OpenSSL,
>> and would thus be marked 'restrictive' by the bindist and no binaries
>> would be generated for that package.
>>
>> (any GPL packages that have an explicit OpenSSL exception would still
>> be labelled GPL as before)

Filed as https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/126

This is the changeset:

----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8<
diff --git a/perlmod/Fink/Scanpackages.pm b/perlmod/Fink/Scanpackages.pm
index bbda942..573410f 100644
--- a/perlmod/Fink/Scanpackages.pm
+++ b/perlmod/Fink/Scanpackages.pm
@@ -506,7 +506,9 @@ sub _output {
  	return if !$self->{restrictive} && (
  		!exists $control->{'Fink-License'}
  		|| lc $control->{'Fink-License'} eq 'restrictive'
-		|| lc $control->{'Fink-License'} eq 'commercial');
+		|| lc $control->{'Fink-License'} eq 'commercial'
+		|| lc $control->{'Fink-License'} eq 'gpl/openssl'
+		|| lc $control->{'Fink-License'} eq 'lgpl/openssl');

  	# Order to output fields, from apt-pkg/tagfile.cc
  	my @fieldorder = qw(Package Essential Status Priority Section
diff --git a/perlmod/Fink/Validation.pm b/perlmod/Fink/Validation.pm
index eba96b3..f987ca9 100644
--- a/perlmod/Fink/Validation.pm
+++ b/perlmod/Fink/Validation.pm
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ our %allowed_license_values = map {$_, 1}
  	 "GPL", "LGPL", "GPL/LGPL", "BSD", "Artistic", "Artistic/GPL", "GFDL",
  	 "GPL/GFDL", "LGPL/GFDL", "GPL/LGPL/GFDL", "LDP", "GPL/LGPL/LDP",
  	 "OSI-Approved", "Public Domain", "Restrictive/Distributable",
-	 "Restrictive", "Commercial", "DFSG-Approved"
+	 "Restrictive", "Commercial", "DFSG-Approved", "GPL/OpenSSL", 
"LGPL/OpenSSL"
  	);

  # Allowed values of the architecture field
----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8<

Documentation change to reference.php and policy.php to follow once this 
is accepted.

Hanspeter


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