On 2011/03/16 16:57, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > I asked Colin privately about the RESTRICTED marker, and he replied with > (paraphrased) "the license is nonstandard, and I didn't want to bother > the release manager". I think the license is fairly clear, but I'd be > willing to get (public) clarification of any issues you have.
I think the license is quite clear too: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, without modification, is permitted for the sole purpose of using the "tarsnap" backup service provided by Colin Percival." I don't think there's any possible way OpenBSD would be willing to place restrictions on what users might do with the software, therefore we may not redistribute it, so it's PERMIT_*=No. > One *could* make an argument that OpenBSD should protest tarsnap.com's > discriminatory terms of service. But I haven't seen it yet, and the > no-Canadians policy is based purely on a practical argument (tarsnap.com > is just one guy, and sales tax is complicated). Having it on a CD produced and sold from Canada certainly wouldn't make that any simpler for him; however I think it's irrelevant as after re-reading I don't think we may redistribute at all. > And note that we have > net/p5-Net-Amazon (state-hopping sales tax-evasion shenanigans), > math/maple (commercial software) and lots of other non-FOSS stuff in our > ports tree. I don't see a problem with that, as long as PERMIT markers are set appropriately.
