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Licence fixes #50464

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Licence fixes #50464

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Motivation for this change

Some of the licences are incorrectly assumed to be free.

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

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cc @c0bw3b who added nposl originally

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c0bw3b commented Nov 16, 2018

bsl10 could be removed entirely since it's replaced by Business Software License 1.1 (https://mariadb.com/bsl10 even redirects to https://mariadb.com/bsl11 ). And yes 'free' status of this license is questionable at least.

OTOH: why remove NPOSL ?

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lheckemann commented Nov 16, 2018 •
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OTOH: why remove NPOSL ?

Because nothing uses it.

edit: to clarify, I understand lib/licenses.nix more as a reference to allow avoiding duplication of licence attrs across the whole of nixpkgs, not a database of licences (especially nonfree ones) and as such leaving unnecessary stuff out makes sense.

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c0bw3b commented Nov 16, 2018 •
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(NPOSL is not unfree)
I added the whole OSL family of licenses. Granted OSL-2.1 and OSL-3 are the most likely to be used but since NPOSL is a current (non-obsolete) license and SPDX id it's virtually free to keep it available for new additions to nixpkgs that might look for it.
But otherwise I agree licenses.nix doesn't need to contain every SPDX ids possible so not against this.

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Oh I see, I misunderstood

  1. Non-Profit Amendment. The name of this amended version of the Open Software License ("OSL 3.0") is "Non-Profit Open Software License 3.0". The original OSL 3.0 license has been amended as follows:

(a) Licensor represents and declares that it is a not-for-profit organization that derives no revenue whatsoever from the distribution of the Original Work or Derivative Works thereof, or from support or services relating thereto.

as meaning that the licensee has to be non-profit. Never mind that bit then :)

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lib/licenses: mark some as unfree
8fb1e5e 
AMD license agreement (currently unavailable at the given URL, but
included in tarball) disallows reverse-engineering, modification,
redistribution etc;

BSL licenses limit commercial production use.
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lib/licenses: remove bsl10
4ef0760 
Licence isn't used anywhere and nonfree.
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c0bw3b commented Nov 16, 2018 •
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:) That's why I was asking in the first place: I thought you believed NPOSL to be unfree.

But it is OSI approved and used by non-profit licensors but for the licensee the terms are similar to normal OSL.

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c0bw3b commented Nov 16, 2018

@Izorkin this means maxscale is unfree from now on (just FYI as maintainer)

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Izorkin commented Nov 17, 2018

@c0bw3b in the package need to change something?

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lheckemann commented Nov 17, 2018 •
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@Izorkin only that it will require allowUnfree from now on — nothing inside the package.

@Mic92 Mic92 merged commit 48dc8ef into NixOS:master Nov 17, 2018
@lheckemann lheckemann deleted the licence-fixes branch November 17, 2018 14:28
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Backported to 18.09 c7519bd 51076ed

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