[Mageia-dev] Adding a new license to rpmlint

[Anssi Hannula]

On 20.01.2012 08:07, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have packaged Warsow[1], which it's engine is open source but as
> with other games I have packaged, the data files are licensed with a
> non-free license called "Warsow Content License" [2], which allows
> unmodified distribution of the data files in different formats like
> rpm, deb, etc (clause 3). I have imported the warsow and warsow-data
> packages to subversion but I haven't pushed them to the BS (to
> nonfree/release of course) because the data package will be rejected
> because of the license. It's feasible to add this license to rpmlint
> checks ? the other solution would be to make the game use
> autodownloader for the data files as I did for other games.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [1] http://www.warsow.net/
> [2] http://www.calculate-linux.org/packages/licenses/warsow
> 

It is a non-free redistributable license and should thus use the
"Freeware" license tag, see:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Licensing_policy

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Anssi Hannula