package license fields

Ross Paterson ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Fri Apr 29 07:44:43 EDT 2005


On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:36:39PM +0200, Daan Leijen wrote:
> I see that the license field in the package
> descriptions must be one of the following
> values:
> 
> GPL, LGPL, BSD3, BSD4, PublicDomain, AllrightReserved
> or OtherLicense.
> 
> Can (should?) we add the "WxWidgets" license?
> (essentially L-GPL but allows commercial use).

The license field is just a guide, and only has a few widely used ones.
You could use OtherLicense and supply a value for the license-file field.


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