[arch-general] Question about the license of opera

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> 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.