[openbeos] Re: unrar

> >what about setting up another branch for less-than-ideal software
> >licenses?
>
> Sounds like a good idea.

This is dangerous. If we're not careful, this sets a precedent for adding
all kinds of non-MIT (or even worse, non-open source) code to the
repository.

Sure, it might be nice and more convenient to have these tools in the Haiku
source tree, but where do we draw the line?

The license that was chosen for the project is the MIT license and all code
should really live up to the terms of that license. (As a reminder: These
terms allow commercial use of the code, by anyone.)

Any code that violates these principles has no place in our repository, how
inconvenient that may be.

If this is a problem somehow (or too much of an inconvience), then maybe the
MIT license isn't the proper one for this project.

-Matthijs

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