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Question about non-free packages



Hi astro packagers,


A while ago I started with packaging the NAIF CSPICE Toolkit (NASA's venerable but reliable C toolkit for handling JPL [SPK] ephemeris files). However, it all went on hold because of licensing issues...

I have had lots of discussion with the Fedora folks, and have began further discussion with SPDX. It looks like that the upstream license is not quite open-source by today's definitions (it looks like it's a SunRPC-like license, which is too restrictive, certainly for Fedora).

One possibility is to continue with the packaging but to submit to non-free. What's the procedure for that? Normally, the salsa packages have 'unstable' in the changelog, which then get promoted to 'stable' by the sponsor. Should I simply note 'non-free' in the changelog to upload to non-free?

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks in advance,

-- A.


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