[arch-general] Question about the license of opera

[Allan McRae]

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.

Allan