On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Attila wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> i recognized that there is new package in aur for opera with this >> informations: >> >> "This package is the official one from the [extra] repository. We have to >> move >> it because of a unclear license issue. After we have clarify this issue >> the >> package will be back in the repos or not. It should not be moved to >> community, because of the license." >> >> I'm a little bit surprised that a custom license is such a problem because >> this shows me 343 entries: >> >> find /var/abs -name PKGBUILD | \ >> xargs grep license | \ >> grep custom | grep extra | wc -l >> >> Will now all packages with custom licenses disappear from extra? >> > > No. Only the ones where it is unclear if we can legally distribute it. To clarify a little more, a "custom" license is not a specific type of license. It just means the package ships a license that is non-standard and doesn't have a name. The license that is shipped with Opera has some odd language, making us unable to ship it at this current time.
