As stated in https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html, the curl license is "inspired by MIT/X, but not identical". Given the differences to similar licenses that are individually included in the Gentoo tree, it would reason that its license should be included and it should be set as the LICENSE of net-misc/curl.
This is similar to the ISC license, but with a slightly different disclaimer and with an additional anti-advertising clause. Presumably the cleanest solution is to add it as a separate license file (even though there's not much of a practical difference to either of MIT, ISC or BSD).
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #1) > This is similar to the ISC license, but with a slightly different disclaimer > and with an additional anti-advertising clause. > > Presumably the cleanest solution is to add it as a separate license file > (even though there's not much of a practical difference to either of MIT, > ISC or BSD). Do you suggest I call it license/CURL?
Usually we try to use the SPDX name: https://spdx.org/licenses/curl.html Would be "curl", in lowercase.
(In reply to Hanno Böck from comment #3) > Would be "curl", in lowercase. +1
Okay I literally copied COPYING to license/curl.
Shouldn't it be added to some license group which is accepted by default? (@MISC-FREE maybe)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=29ec427579005b2e0a1b347992cb9ad7269f6c7f commit 29ec427579005b2e0a1b347992cb9ad7269f6c7f Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-06-17 19:13:09 +0000 Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-06-17 19:14:14 +0000 profiles: Add curl to MISC-FREE license group. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/728522 Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> profiles/license_groups | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(In reply to Larry the Git Cow from comment #7) > The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/ > ?id=29ec427579005b2e0a1b347992cb9ad7269f6c7f > > commit 29ec427579005b2e0a1b347992cb9ad7269f6c7f > Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> > AuthorDate: 2020-06-17 19:13:09 +0000 > Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> > CommitDate: 2020-06-17 19:14:14 +0000 > > profiles: Add curl to MISC-FREE license group. > > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/728522 > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> > > profiles/license_groups | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) thanks ulm. I forgot about the license groups.
