[mercury-users] Mercury Anarchive proposal

[Ondrej Bojar]

Marcos Dumay de Medeiros wrote:
> I know You've already set it up, and may want to ignore me, but there it goes:
> 
>> - has the Manarchive to adopt a specific copyright policy to be useful for
>>    you?
> 
> Yep. It should contain only free software, or it should be easy get warnings 
> for non-free software.
> Also, it should be easy to discover the licence from the package name, even 
> better if I can search packages from licence. Probably, the person who 
> creates the package defines the licence, but it would be nice to have some 
> mechanism to change it latter.

As I told you, I'm not good at understanding exact licensing restrictions.
Sourceforge needed to specify licenses Manarchive is available under. So I put 
there LGPL + Artistic.
(On one of the project summary pages, only the LGPL was printed, on most of 
them, it displays it correctly.)

I have not mentioned the licenses in the READMEs and the manager so far is 
does not handle licenses for individual packages. Surely, this can be added.

Could you help me adding a package-based licensing scheme? In principle, this 
ought to be easy:

:- type license ---> lgpl; artistic; ... wish more?... .

and each package's README.term would contain the list of licenses applicable 
to this package.

Changing the license of a package would be just changing the README.term.

Ondrej.

> If it is easy to see the licence, I don't care if you include several of them, 
> but you should remember that non-free licences aren't standardized, so if you 
> include them, you can't simply enumerate. Some free licences aren't 
> standardized either, but you can ignore that and just enumerate the more used 
> ones.
> 
>>    I'm not good at picking one of the ready-made licences, all I want is
>>    that my credit is recognized and kept in comments.
> 
> So it's not free. You still can get something like that from Creative Commons.
> 
> []'s
> Marcos
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