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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