[aur-general] Two licenses (GPL and custom) on a package - split up or not
Hi, After asking their maintainers in AUR3, I just adopted a few packages that I'll need in AUR4. Three of them were definitions for Brother printers I'm using. My question: Brother is using GPL2 for their cupswrapper part [0] and a custom license for their lpr part [1]. I also adopted the package for Brother's HL3040CN which original maintainer bundled both parts in one package [2]. Shall I split this package up into a GPL and a custom part like in [0] and [1]? Regards, Sebastian ----------- [0] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/brother-ql700-cupswrapper/ [1] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/brother-ql700-lpr/ [2] https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/brother-hl3040cn/
A package from community $ pacman -Qi linuxsampler | grep Li Licenses : GPL custom:exception In this case the whole project does use an invalid GPL, the reason: https://www.linuxsampler.org/faq.html Perhaps you could build one package with Licenses : GPL and custom IMO splitting a package should be avoided.
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Ralf Mardorf
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Sebastian Lau