Question about non-free packages

[Attila Kovacs <attila.kovacs@cfa.harvard.edu>]

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.