Snap package licenses

Mark Shuttleworth mark at ubuntu.com
Thu Jan 26 22:35:25 UTC 2017


We should allow a plaintext field there for this situation. Yes, go
ahead with "Other open source".

On 26/01/17 22:14, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm just about to upload the ldc2 snap, but have one last question
> first.  LDC itself is released under the terms of the BSD license, but
> some components it links to are released under other licenses (Boost,
> Artistic License and LGPL). All of this is covered under the
> setup/license.txt file.
>
> However, the submission form wants a specific license.  Would BSD be
> adequate in this case or is it better to specify 'Other open source'
> ... ?
>
> Thanks & best wishes,
>
>     -- Joe
>






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