[openbeos] Re: unrar

Kristian Poul Herkild <kristian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sure, it might be nice and more convenient to have these tools in 
> > the Haiku
> > source tree, but where do we draw the line?
> All licenses which grants you the right to redistribute the software 
> in 
> a distro obtainable for free (as in beer) AS WELL AS for charge, can 
> be 
> used without problems. All licenses denying you the right to 
> redistribute in a distro for a charge and/or for free _should_ be 
> avoided.

Agreed.

> There are a gazillion of licenses in the sourcetree by now. Some of 
> these are incompatible with the MIT-license, because they don't allow 
> commercial distribution without further special licensing.

If we've any of those in our repository, please call them by name. They 
are most probably there by accident.

[...]
> Just my opinion. However, some licenses are likely to be void in 
> Europe 
> and again some other licenses are likely to be void in USA. In 
> general 
> I'd said _screw the licenses_ and clean out the problems later - if 
> need be.

That's definitely not a good idea either, or we'd end up in the 
"dangerous" section that Matthijs want to secure us from.
Also, it would be kinda stupid if we found out 2 days before the 
release that we can't do it, as some parts of the software we're using 
cannot be legally distributed as part of our distribution.

Bye,
   Axel.

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