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Bug 724658 - 9base shoud probably be a free license
Summary: 9base shoud probably be a free license
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Licenses team
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Reported: 2020-05-23 12:13 UTC by Hanno Böck
Modified: 2020-05-23 12:43 UTC (History)
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Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev 2020-05-23 12:13:03 UTC
9base looks to me like 
Lucent Public License 1.02
which is OSI approved:
https://opensource.org/licenses/lucent1.02.php

And FSF thinks it's a free (but not GPL compatible) license:
http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Lucent_Public_License_version_1.02

(Unfortunately not SPDX-compatible-named which would be LPL-1.02.)

So this should probably go into OSI_APPROVED and FSF_APPROVED.

There also is PLAN9 which to me looks also like a variation of this, but not sure which license this exactly matches to.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2020-05-23 12:43:25 UTC
Good catch, but what about the introductory section ("No right is granted to create derivative works of or to redistribute ...")? It is obviously non-free, but the question is if it applies to any of the packages under this license.

If not, maybe we should delete it? (Then again, it may be cleaner to create a new file without that section.)


(In reply to Hanno Böck from comment #0)
> There also is PLAN9 which to me looks also like a variation of this, but not
> sure which license this exactly matches to.

PLAN9 is only used for dev-libs/9libs, but I don't see that license in the package's tarball. It has a license similar to HPND in its README file.